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Nosy Neighbor Horror Stories: What Do You Do? [Block Talk] - Across America, US - How do get busybody neighbors to back off without completely crushing them? Or do you just run away and hide when you see them?

How CA's Prop 12 Made Pig Farmers Squeal — For Different Reasons - Across America, US - Industrial ag sounds alarm bells over California's animal welfare law, but farmers who raise pigs humanely hear cash registers ringing.

Strawberries Sold At Walmart Stores Recalled Due To Hepatitis Risk - Across America, US - An Oregon fruit company is recalling some of its frozen products due to potential Hepatitis A contamination.

I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. Its from a collection called "Grooks." Hein, a Dutch philosopher, mathematician, scientist and author, wrote these brief poems that are elegant in their simplicity and succinctly convey irony, parody and satire. Subscribe Hein invented Grooks in the 1930s, but they didnt gain widespread popularity until shortly after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in April 1940 whe...

UpdatedFri, May 7, 2021 at 5:25 pm ET Replies(25) Raquel Cusi gives self-defense classes to other moms and their children as a member of the Asian Moms San Diego Facebook group, established as a safe place for other Asian American and Pacific Islander moms to support each other. (Photo courtesy of Daisy Nguyen) ACROSS AMERICA — If anyone ever deserved a day off and a lot of pampering on Sunday — the second Mothers Day of the coronavirus pandemic — its Americas moms. Theyve juggled more th...

UpdatedFri, Mar 5, 2021 at 10:21 am ET Replies(4) The discovery of one of five missing panels in famed American modernist Jacob Lawrence’s painting depicting Shays’ Rebellion — located on an apartment wall in New York City’s Upper West Side — led to the discovery of yet another missing panel. (Photo courtesy of the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society, New York; via Peabody Essex Museum) ACROSS AMERICA — A good treasure hunt is what we need....

UpdatedFri, Feb 12, 2021 at 9:23 am ET Replies(7) Montclair, New Jersey, brewers Leo and Denise Ford Sawadogo pay homage to their African and Caribbean ancestors every year during Black History Month with special releases that celebrate their cultures. (Photo courtesy of Montclair Brewery) ACROSS AMERICA — With every pull on the tap in his Montclair Brewery taproom during February — Black History Month — Leo Sawadogo toasts his ancestors with special releases that feature ingredients with...

UpdatedThu, Feb 4, 2021 at 8:32 am CT Replies(2) Hinsdale Finance Director Darrell Langlois is leaving the village after 11 years to become the assistant controller at Joliet Junior College, officials said. (Google Maps) HINSDALE, IL — Hinsdales finance director is leaving his job after 11 years and becoming the assistant controller at Joliet Junior College, officials announced Tuesday. Officials said Darrell Langlois departure was technically a retirement, meaning he can start collecting hi...

UpdatedWed, Feb 3, 2021 at 4:58 pm ET Replies(16) Connecticut will roll out drivers license renewal to more drivers soon. (Patch graphic) CONNECTICUT — The Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles is rolling out online drivers license renewal for Connecticut residents in a major step to make trips to the DMV less frequent. The DMV launched a pilot program in November for online driver license renewal. So far 100,000 people have been eligible to renew online and around 20 percent have done so,...

Gertrude B. Shapiro (nee Berkman), a long-time resident of Stamford, CT, who was born in Oconto, Wisconsin, passed away in her sleep on Saturday, January 30th just 12 days after the death of her husband of 74 years, Marvin L. Shapiro. She is survived by her 3 children, Susan, Barbara and Jonathan ("Jody") (fiancé Annette), as well as two granddaughters, Jennifer (Michael) and Casie (Josh) and four great grandchildren, Madison, Everly, Scout and Ellis, all of whom she loved very much. She is al...