October 22, 2009 / Features

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Ask the Home Team

A friend of mine says I can get free hot water if I connect my hot-water piping to my woodstove. Does this really work? Some woodstoves are manufactured with water heater connections, and some are designed only for space heat. More...

Kids Korner

The Macaque
By S. RIZZOTTO The Northfield News

Macaques live in many different habitats across the globe, making them the most widely distributed genus of nonhuman primates. Macaques are commonly used in medical research. Their coloration includes gray, brown or black fur. More...

Hello From Hollywood!

"Where The Wild Things Are"
By J. ROBERTS The Northfield News

AT 338 WORDS in ten sentences, Maurice Sendek's "Where the Wild Things Are" quickly became a much-beloved bedtime classic and selling nearly 20 million copies since its publication in 1963. More...

Common Talk

Mostly Good News
By JANE E. BRYANT The Northfield News

ON THE COMMON, Duane Kew still wore his Red Sox baseball cap and shiny red Red Sox jacket in the days after Boston fell out of the pennant race. One of our friends cried over the defeat, but Mr. More...