International Pen Pal Program connects women from sister cities Kutztown and Altrip, Germany Kutztown Community Library has been matching writing partners.

Kutztown Community Library began the International Pen Pal Program with Altrip, Germany, on Dec. 1. Kutztown and Altrip will officially become sister cities in early 2021.

Muhich, who grew up in Fairbanks as Peri Lane, is traveling to Dresden, Germany, next month to meet the pen pal she has been sharing letters with for 50 years. A program through AARP called Wish ...

Here’s how that works. VanderLaan, a student studying German in the U.S. and Schneider, studying English in Germany, started writing to each other 43 years ago — with pens, on paper, using the mail — ...

Edward Mutchnick of Lindenhurst had no idea in early 1961 that a pen-pal correspondence with a girl in Germany would lead to a golden wedding anniversary.

One casualty of the war in Iraq didn't happen on the battlefield. It happened through an e-mail sent from a high school student in Tennessee to a pen pal in Germany. The note said an exchange ...