Dear Adults: Reading Is Still Fundamental

Remember bringing home your math book for the first time? Everything was new, there were symbols and fractions and apples being added up and subtracted. It was fun. Most kids start out thinking school is awesome. Some keep that enthusiasm, but a lot of kids lose it, and for those little guys, school is a drag. But what happens to that early enthusias...

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Holly Crab

Photo: Joe Kowalski Chris and Joe picked up food from Holly Crab, the new place on Comm Ave. It's a big Cajun crab boil, with the bibs and gloves. It's good. I hope they make it. Good luck, Holly Crab! hollycrab.com/allston...

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Throwback Thursday: 1984

Frank Davis Resort, Moody CT (Photo: Colleen Berry) Eighth grade class trip. This place closed down, but just envision Dirty Dancing and you've got the idea. But without any of the dancing or dancers. Just the vaguely germ-spreading social activities, and also the pool from Caddyshack. Me and my best friends all went a different way dressing for the class trip. That's the problem with having to wear school uniforms. We get this one single day...

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We're Doing "News" Wrong

Maybe it's because I'm a *card-carrying member of the TV-addled generation who can remember a time when "the news" was actually the news, but I am sick of all the crap, know what I'm sayin'? People are tripping. It's too much. * It's just an old defunct video store membership card.   In our super low budge deadest-end of Connecticut's ramshackle urban sprawl, we got the daily local, The Waterbury Republican, and my father bought...

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