Halloween Fun
This is the evening before All Hallows Day, or All Hallows Evening, now shortened simply to Hallowe’en… although hardly anyone ever puts that apostrophe in there anymore.Where tomorrow’s Catholic holy day is about the purity of saints, also called All Saints Day, All Hallows Day, Hallowmas, or (I think, officially) Solemnity of All Saints… [...]
Halloween Obeisance
This is interesting… Local Police Department recommended hours for trick or treating tonight, from all around the county. An accompanying blurb for that finely crafted graphic has already garnered some spooky comments, too.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
When Tom Barnett first got his book (The Pentagon’s New Map) published, he was teaching at the Naval War College and living in Rhode Island. I read his book nearly four decades after having been drafted into civilian service as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, so my interest in that book was [...]
Bumps in the night
UPTON – Elizabeth A. Towne and Christopher K. Murphy weren’t thinking about ghosts when they moved with their two young children into their circa-1790 house in Upton in 1996. To the contrary, both Ms. Towne and Mr. Murphy are scientists. Ms. Towne’s background is in immunology and Mr. Murphy has a Ph.D. in microbiology and [...]
T&G: Promoting Voter Apathy
Clive McFarlane’s Friday column, was the quintessential example of how our dinosaur local news monopoly promotes voter apathy.He started off by saying that he went to the District 4 debate at Chandler Elementary on Monday evening and how he was "struck by the general lack of interest in the debate from members of that community".It’s [...]
T&G: Promoting Voter Apathy
Clive McFarlane’s Friday column, was the quintessential example of how our dinosaur local news monopoly promotes voter apathy.He started off by saying that he went to the District 4 debate at Chandler Elementary on Monday evening and how he was "struck by the general lack of interest in the debate from members of that community".It’s [...]
Direct Air adds Fort Myers
.The new Niagara Falls International Airport terminal has finally landed its first carrier for an inaugural flight to take off in mid-December.Direct Air will fly from the falls to Ft. Myers, Florida .
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Gas prices add to misery
NEW YORK – Americans are paying more for gasoline than they did last year as the holidays approached and#8212; billions of dollars that could go to books, clothes and Barbie dolls instead of being spent at the pump.
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