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Sewer district meets Oct. 24 There will be a meeting of the Board of Directors for the Portland, Pomfret, Dunkirk Sewer District on Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 1 p

The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.

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Marion’s lost stone tablet comes home WAREHAM – It’s hard not to imagine that Marion would be pleased. Marion Pierce Carter died September 9, 1946 at 81 and is buried next to her husband, Miles, in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Attleboro.  She was an avid genealogist and founder of the Attleboro Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1901. It’s one of the nation’s oldest chapters. The DAR was founded in 1890. One of the first official acts of the brand-new chapter was to ...

History set in stone in Wareham Wicked Local WAREHAM - Jenny Gropman moved into her two-family home built in the 1860s in the residential High Street neighborhood last June. She said they had been doing work on the home’s interior to make it their own and had recently moved on to sprucing up her new yard. She’s a yard person, she said, so she went to work with a will clearing the rear of the property, which had become overgrown and covered with leaves and sticks. She was raking and clearing...

The revolution will proceed reclining: the Capitol mob, their past, and the future of democracy Looking at pictures of Richard “Bigo” Barnett in the U.S. Capitol last week, grinning, his foot resting on a staffer’s desk in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and his arms extended, I recognized a jarringly familiar if initially hard to place tableau. Barnett appeared to be acting, according to Saul Loeb, the Agence France Press photographer who snapped the picture, “just sort of like he o...