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Clinton resident (and Connecticut native) Jim Beloff has become one of the biggest popularizers of the ukulele in the past couple of decades, through songbooks, his own "Fluke" and "Flea" uke designs and major conferences and concerts. Beloff has written his memoirs, published this month by Globe Pequot Press.

Ask Maine Audubon: ‘What’s wrong with our squirrels?’ Your wildlife questions are answered by Maine Audubon Staff Naturalist Doug Hitchcox. Share A squirrel gathers acorns in a yard in Saco on Sept. 25, when squirrels are in full nest-building mode. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer I read your article on squirrel nests. We have a large oak tree and numerous squirrels in our yard. Every year the squirrels bite off twigs from the tree and carry them to a crotch where three large...