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Fine black robes of authority
The U.S. Supreme Court, being the highest and final legal decision making body in the land, in their fine black robes of authority, recently carved out a significant exception to public accommodations laws — laws that in most states bar discrimination based on sexual orientation.
There are painful elements in the grief journey, a sort of subterranean level of major adjustments that often remain undistinguished. That which is unnamed tends to have control over us and so it is useful to name them. That way we have choices.
Independence Day fireworks canceled this year at Lime Rock Park
In the last column we met scientists Joan Strassmann and Pierre Stallforth, and left Joan, lying on the ground in a Virginia forest, peering through a magnifying glass at a pile of steaming deer scat. She saw the first Dictyostelium fruiting body in the wild, sprouting out of a pellet of poop.
June is graduation month, the time to celebrate achievement. Students across the Northwest Corner are receiving diplomas and celebrating with their families and friends as they mark this rite of passage. Who can count how many photos are being snapped by iPhones clutched in the hands of proud parents and grandparents?
100 years ago — June 1923
George Parsons will have all kinds of fireworks for sale at his home beginning next Thursday.
The young ladies of Lime Rock are planning to give a play in the near future.
Once, the catchword for the crime-of-the-century was Watergate. So let’s call this one Showergate, because, well, damning evidence was found in a shower at the Mar-A-Lago estate.
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