Book review

JUDY MOODY IN A MONDAY MOOD by Megan McDonald Illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds Do you have something in common with 3rd Grader,  Judy Moody? If you do not like Mondays because they are the start of the school week, do not like green zucchini  pancakes for breakfast but DO LIKE popping bubble wrap, then […]

Word of the week

Autumn The season between summer and winter. I love autumn because it is not hot like summer or cold like winter and it is so pretty!

Derby winners

County fair blue ribbons and the changing of seasons

  And just like that, summer collapsed into fall. – Oscar Wilde It would be honest to say that Oscar Wilde’s words regarding fall are nearly my favorite way to describe how I feel about this particular change of the season. The others seem to be gradual, but it feels like summer, all at once, […]

Woodstock’s EMT First Responder Program ends

WOODSTOCK — The Woodstock First Responder Program, established 10 years ago, will be terminated next month due to lack of local EMT personnel, according to town officials. The program, operated under the Woodstock Fire Department, has provided initial medical care in that town before PACE Ambulance could arrive. In addition to the staffing problem, now […]

Book review

  We are Inevitable By Gayle Forman In We are Inevitable, you meet a family grieving the loss of Sandy when he gives in to his addictions. Left behind are his parents and younger brother, Aaron. After spending all their money trying to help him get clean, they are now left coping with his death. […]

How do they say that in…

English     social justice French    justice sociale Spanish    Justicia social Italian    giustizia sociale German    soziale Gerechtigkeit Arabic    aleadalat al’iijtimaeia    العدالة الإجتماعية  

al’arbaein الأربعين

The arabic word ‘al’arbaein  or Arbaeen’ (pronounced Arr-ba-een) translates to forty (ie fortieth day). The traditional period of mourning in Islamic culture is forty days. As such, millions of people around the world mark the Day of Arbaeen by remembering the story of Hussain ibn Ali, his family and his companions. Arbaeen is one of the […]

Fire destroys Village Trading Post in Minot

MINOT — A building housing a store, post office and home was struck by fire Saturday. A post in the Facebook public group “Friends of the Village Trading Post-Minot, Maine,” said: “The Village Trading Post in West Minot, Maine, was destroyed on September 11, 2021. Along with the Trading Post our town also lost the […]

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English     immunity French    immunité Spanish    inmunidad German    Immunität Italian    immunità Arabic    hasana  حصانة