Community offers support to teen who sent "letter to heaven." — -- 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 ...

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AUBURN (CBS13) — A letter to heaven from a young girl to her dead father that was scrawled on a balloon has fallen to Earth. The girl who wrote it lives 435 miles away from the parking lot of a burger ...

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 because ...

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Balloon Jupiter had to land after 30 miles; its mail (here) was sent on by train. National Postal Museum If you happened to be a child in the New York City of 1859, awaiting a birthday letter from, ...

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I have been surprised at the feigned outrage of our government officials regarding the overflight of the Chinese “spy” balloon over the continental U.S. and Alaska. The technology was developed during ...

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 touching ...