For three weeks, hundreds of Columbia Elementary School students still have been getting their morning announcements. But Principal Ian Yale has a co-anchor — Mr. Chitchat. Yale and a chipmunk puppet ...

Six decades is a long time in the life of a chipmunk. Alvin and his brothers started life as disembodied voices on a novelty record in 1958, and first appeared in animated form in the 1961 primetime ...