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The most notable picture, middle grade and young adult books of the year, selected by The Times’s children’s books editor.

It's time for the new season of books, and we expect this one will really DRAW you in! Get ready for some illustrated works by some award-winning authors and artists.

Americans are leaving their jobs in droves in what is now being labeled “The Great Resignation.” “We haven’t seen a quit rate this high since 2000 when the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began the current Job Openings and Labor Survey data series,” says Lawrence Katz, Professor of Economics at Harvard. “Last month was the highest quit rate that we’ve observed in the JOLTS data.” During the earliest months of the pandemic, companies scrambled to act quickly as the outbreak led to...

ATHOL — The Athol-based Millers River Watershed Coalition (MRWC) has cobbled together environmental organizations from across the state in hopes of developing an alternative to Gardner’s plans to expand the landfill where it disposes of sludge from...

ATHOL — Maybe people had already made up their minds regarding most of the articles on the warrant, or maybe they just wanted to dispense with the town’s business so they could get home for Game 3 of the ALCS between the Red Sox and Astros. In either...

JPMAM has launched the JPM US Sustainable Equity fund, a best-in-class portfolio which invests in US firms deemed most sustainable

Sarah Stewart and David Small will talk about their archive with Gerald W. Cloud, rare book and archives dealer, bibliographer, scholar and friend.

StoryWalks encourage collaboration and reflection, and transform the often sedentary act of reading into a dynamic, interactive activity.

Premium Content Subscriber only A young girl from North Rockhampton has made the brave decision to cut her long hair this week for charity. Seven-year-old Lexi Mitchell will be donating her hair to children’s charity Varity to be made into wigs for children who have lost their hair due to a medical condition, such as alopecia. According to Variety, the wigs make a “big difference”, giving kids “more confidence and improved self-esteem so they can feel like themselves again”. The chari...

Spotting a Canada lynx is an exciting, once-in-a-lifetime moment for many in Maine’s North Woods. As is watching a wild Atlantic salmon swim upstream to spawn or a Piping Plover trot across a sandy beach. These inspiring animals have something in common not only because they wow us when we have the opportunity to see them, but also because they are all endangered species. We must do all we can to keep from losing them forever. Those of us at the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) are e...