Editors note: This letter is in response to the editorial titled “Up Up and Away.” Twenty-nine years ago, my daughter and her first grade classmates signed a petition to stop balloon launches ...

They were words Mia never had to spell before. She asked her parents to help attach her letter to a pink balloon, her own balloon for Annie. "Everything she does, she does with big heart and big ...

Cancel anytime. Can you please inform your readers of the dangers of balloon releases? Visually, balloon releases are beautiful. Symbolically, they can mean more to people than just a colorful ...

151; -- For her late father's Jan. 6 birthday, 16-year-old Ashlynn Marracino wrote him a letter and sent it floating on a star-shaped balloon. One day later, Lisa Swisley stumbled upon the teen's ...

AUBURN, Calif. -- A little girl from Whittier whose father passed away wrote a letter to him on the sides of a star-shaped balloon and then released it into the sky. Her message traveled hundreds ...