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Features February 4, 2010  RSS feed

Common Talk
Signs in the Sky
     IT’S FORTUNATE that I heard Ken Squier talking about sundogs last Saturday on his Music to Go the Dump By radio show or I might have thought the vision in front of me was my personal invitation to The Other Side. Mr. Squier asked listeners to phone in their experiences or knowledge of the lore of sundogs. He didn’t want a scientific explanation, only personal experience.
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Kids Korner
The Snow Image
     ONE AFTERNOON of a cold winter's day, two children asked leave of their mother to run out and play in the new-fallen snow. The older child was a little girl, so tender and modest that every one called her Violet. The boy was called Peony because of his fat, round face which made everybody think of sunshine and scarlet flowers.
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Thoughts of an Average Joe
Heavy Kids
     IWAS DRIVING to work one day last winter and passed a group of middle school aged kids waiting for the school bus. What I saw there, in the group of a dozen, or so, youngsters, concerned me. I was left to wonder if our economy is even worse than I figured.
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Representative View
     IDEDICATED MOST of my work this past week on veteran’s issues. I had the honor of introducing to the House Northfield’s Brenda Cruickshank who is a VFW Judge Advocate and State Legislative liaison. She was at the State House with many of our veteran organizations helping us understand challenges our veterans face and resources the organizations provide.
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Silly Social Scenes
“As to his general character, it would not be safe to trust the representations of satirists.” Thomas Babington Macaulay
      COUP ATTEMPT FAILS; 3 SELECTMEN CHASTISED – Oh, my, gentle readers, hasn’t the last sennight been an EXCITING one? Were not the cocktails of your hearts warmed almost to the boiling point by the interest displayed in the mis-government of our beloved minitropolis?
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