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    N.J. school district closed for day, town hall closed for morning following bomb threat

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    There are a lot of indie survival horror games that are fifth-generation throwbacks, but à la mode games has a particularly special one in the works.

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    Mililani is at No. 1 in the Star-Advertiser Softball Top 10 for a second week in a row.

  • The importance of Earth Day in Massachusetts

    Monday is Earth Day, a global recognition of climate and environmental issues. Earth Day has been celebrated world wide since 1970, but the implications are more pressing now more than ever.

  • JAG Productions to Close in June

    JAG Productions, the 8-year-old White River Junction and New York City-based company committed to developing and presenting the work of Black, and Black and queer theater artists, will close at the end of its season in June. "Despite our successes, the broader crisis facing the arts has not spared us," founder and producing artistic director Jarvis Antonio Green wrote in an April 18 email to supporters. The nonprofit theater model "increasingly proves unsustainable amid shifting societal...

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    My favorite comedic and outdoor author, Patrick McManus, said this in his book, A Fine and Pleasant Misery: “Every kid should have an old man. Fathers are alright but they spend entirely too much time at work.” While written for humor, the wisdom of this idea has the potential to answer a

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    April is recognized as National Financial Literacy Month, a campaign created two decades ago to highlight issues surrounding financial literacy in the U.S.