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Greater Boston and its inner suburbs have a vacancy rate of over 20%, more than double the 9% range in late 2018, according to W. Keith Munsell.

L.A. Hike Club offers a way for singles to mingle and nature lovers to make connections. Large group hikes include trips to Temescal, Runyon Canyon, Escondido, Griffith Park and more. For a romantic date, try hiking!

Many hikers have grown tired of waiting for the rain to stop and are heading back to their trails despite erosion and ice that has made many pathways dangerous.

Joel Breakstone and Emily Silver knew they had a talented group on their hands. The co-head coaches of the Thetford Academy track and field team had guided the Panthers to VPA Division III state championships in 2019 and 2021 — for both the boys and...

WINDSOR — Call it a track-and-field sweep-peat for the girls and the boys of Thetford Academy — with a couple of asterisks and several twists.After the gap year from heck canceled the 2020 season — thanks, COVID-19 — the Panthers defended their...

Local roundup: Thetford’s Marshis tosses no-hitter to top Oxbow Ethan Marshia Modified: 5/22/2021 11:42:30 PM BRADFORD, Vt. — Two of Thetford Academy baseball’s three losses this season have been no-hitters. On Saturday at Oxbow High, the Panthers were finally on the right side of that feat. Junior Ethan Marshia dominated against the Olympians, holding them hitless in a 4-0 Thetford win. Two walks and an error separated Marshia from a perfect game. He struck out eight in his complete-game...

Local roundup: TA track sweeps Windsor meet Knute Linehan Modified: 5/15/2021 10:19:12 PM WINDSOR — One point was all that separated the Thetford Academy boys track and field team from Bellows Falls at Windsor High’s Murphy-Morse Complex on Saturday. One point, though, was all it took to give the Panthers a winning margin over the Terriers to complete a sweep of the meet after the girls team ran away from the field. Knute Linehan leaped his way to three wins for the Thetford boys, taking th...

Local roundup: Hanover boys, girls tennis squads outmatch Alvirne Modified: 5/8/2021 12:07:33 AM HUDSON, N.H. — Hanover boys tennis (5-2) won its third straight match, this time a 6-3 overtaking of Alvirne on the road. HHS went 5-1 in singles matches. Junior Evan Yang (8-3), junior Kevin Pillsbury (8-5), sophomore Zhiwen Liu (8-2), senior Alex Stevens (8-3), and junior Charlie Birkmeyer (8-0) emerged victorious. Hanover head coach Jarrod Shaheen spoke highly of Alvirne’s sportsmanship befor...

Georgia Powers’ teacher was talking, but the little girl was falling asleep in front of the laptop her parents had set up in front of her. Georgia’s dad, Aaron Powers, brought the computer closer to the 10-year-old. “Sorry, we’re trying,” he explained via laptop to the girl’s fourth-grade teacher at Heston Elementary, a woman the family had never met in person. “Come on, Georgia,” Aaron Powers ...

The debate over human “enhancement”, or the biotechnological heightening of human abilities, is prominent in bioethics. The most controversial stance is transhumanism, whose advocates urge us to develop biotechnologies enabling the “radical” elevation of select capacities, above all, rationality. Transhumanists insist that their vision of the radical bioenhancement of human capacities is light-years removed from prior eugenics, which was state managed. Decisions about how far and even w...