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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A young girl wrote a letter to her dead ...

A balloon with a letter to heaven asking for a sign, may have received an answer. Every year since her father Scott died, Ashlynn Marracino writes a birthday note to him in early January and sends it ...

When 16-year-old Ashlynn Marracino released a balloon in memory of her late father, she asked him to send her a sign. What happened next made her believe she got one.Hundreds of miles away, kind ...

Balloon releases must stop (“Balloon release honors 2 teenagers killed,” Reading Eagle, Oct. 26). The balloons don’t go to heaven. What goes up, must come down. Released balloons are polluting our ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AUBURN, Calif. — A balloon found crumpled up ...