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At food shelf, a welcome Thanksgiving feast

There were familiar faces all around, centerpieces on the tables and plates laden with turkey, trimmings and cake. Just after 11 a.m., a volunteer opened the locked door and a dozen people -- waiting outside on a windy, gray day -- shuffled forward and ...

From JOHN CURRAN, Boston Globe,  27 Nov 2008

Killing of disabled man troubles small NH town

HAVERHILL, N.H.—Christopher Gray didn't deserve to die. Even his alleged killer says so. Developmentally disabled but outgoing and active, the 25-year-old Wal-Mart cashier left work one night last month with two co-workers and another person. Later ...

From JOHN CURRAN, Boston Globe,  23 Nov 2008

For toilet-less Vermont library, a new chapter

When you gotta go, you gotta go. But for decades, when you had to go in the Roxbury Free Library, you really had to go — somewhere else, that is. The one-room clapboard building, a beloved small-town gathering place since 1923, had no restrooms. When ...

From JOHN CURRAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  21 Nov 2008

For toilet-less Vermont library, a new chapter

ROXBURY, Vt. (AP) -- When you gotta go, you gotta go. But for decades, when you had to go in the Roxbury Free Library, you really had to go - somewhere else, that is. The one-room clapboard building, a beloved small-town gathering place since 1923, ...

From JOHN CURRAN, Buffalo News,  21 Nov 2008

For toilet-less Vermont library, a new chapter

ROXBURY, Vt.—When you gotta' go, you gotta' go. But for decades, when you had to go in the Roxbury Free Library, you really had to go -- somewhere else, that is. The one-room clapboard building, a beloved small-town gathering place since 1923, had no ...

From JOHN CURRAN, Boston Globe,  20 Nov 2008

Vt. town grows divisible over Pledge of Allegiance

WOODBURY, Vt. (AP) -- No one is sure when daily recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance fell by the wayside at Woodbury Elementary School. But efforts to restore them have erupted into a bitter dispute in this town of about 800 residents, with school ...

From JOHN CURRAN, Buffalo News,  14 Nov 2008

Vt. town grows divisible over Pledge of Allegiance

WOODBURY, Vt. (AP) -- No one is sure when daily recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance fell by the wayside at Woodbury Elementary School. But efforts to restore them have erupted into a bitter dispute in this town of about 800 residents, with school ...

From JOHN CURRAN, The Orange County Register,  14 Nov 2008

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