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Dorothy Rosby Contributing columnist I’m proud to say I’ve developed a technique for putting in eye drops during the night without turning on the lights. Lucky for me, it doesn’t work very well. One night recently, I woke up...
Read MoreJoan Dorsey Contributing Columnist The year has turned. No vision boards this year. No vacation plans in the works. Businesses thriving and surviving would be nice. Businesses not afraid to have paper newspapers in their stores...
Read MoreJoan Dorsey Contributing Columnist I have been thinking about small town Christmas lately. This year we long for all those comfortable things that we can remember from the past. I was lucky to grow up in Gardner. My folks had...
Read MoreDorothy Rosby Contributing columnist One day early in the pandemic, I caught myself muttering to a can of cat food at the grocery store. “Geez, it would be cheaper to buy the cat a T-bone.” I regularly talk to car keys I can’t...
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Joan Dorsey Contributing columnist Halloween has come and slithered quietly on . . . we have gobbled our way past Thanksgiving. It is getting dark near 5 p.m. Our numbers for the pandemic seem to have escalated quite a bit. On a...
Read MoreDorothy Rosby Contributing columnist You can’t tell by looking at my wrapping, but I was once a Professional Gift Wrapper. Sort of. When I was a teenager, I worked at a hardware store in my hometown. We carried a variety of...
Read MoreDorothy Rosby Contributing columnist A lot of people may not be comfortable with Halloween activities this year because of the pandemic. It’s a shame really, because we all have masks now. But any other year, normally sane...
Read MoreDorothy Rosby Contributing columnist Holy leaf blower! We have enough trees to start an arboretum. If you’d been in my living room this morning, you’d have seen me staring out my window and muttering something like, “I swear we...
Read MoreRobert Romano Guest Columnist At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when a lot less was known about the virus and how to counter it, and while the nation was still ramping up production of testing and hospital resources...
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