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Get ready to "spring ahead" with this explanation on the change in standard time in the United States.

As the nation prepares to move its clocks an hour forward this Sunday, medical professionals and lawmakers are sounding the alarm.

Editorial: To spring forward is to set back our well-being Express-News Editorial Board FacebookTwitterEmail It’s that time of year again: You know, when we spring forward and lose an hour of sleep and become total grumps. Why do we do this?Associated Press file photo It disrupts our sleep — and our lives — and it takes days, if not weeks, to set things straight. The dreaded spring forward. Daylight saving time. It may extend daylight, but it does nothing to ease the upheaval it creates ...

Elections for selectmen and School Committee on the March 12 warrant. Read Article MINOT —  Absentee ballots are available as the residents prepare to vote March 12 raising money to bring broadband internet service to underserved parts of town.  Voters will be asked to appropriate $100,000 from surplus to serve as a ConnectME Authority Grant match. The town is partnering with FirstLight to expand broadband service to underserved parts of the town and will cover about 50% of the residences...

Michael Downing, whose books illuminated his illness and the lives of others, dies at 62 By Bryan Marquard Globe Staff,Updated February 28, 2021, 4:38 p.m. Email to a Friend Mr. Downing, equally adept at fiction and nonfiction, wrote nine books. (Pat Greenhouse/Globe staff/file) At 45, Michael Downing learned that his excellent health was a mirage, obscuring a genetic defect that probably had led to his father’s death from a heart attack at 44. The first symptom of his demise, he learned, ...

They are due to get underway at Cork University Hospital today

Daylight Savings Time 2021 occurs next month when clocks will 'spring forward' one hour. Here's the timing, history and reasons behind Daylight Saving Time. (03/14/2021)

In surveys of NewsDash readers, there are always some who say they don’t like Daylight Saving time and feel it’s unnecessary.

comments Its cold outside so bundle up with a good book. Here are 30 great Canadian books to check out. If I Knew Then is a book by Jann Arden.(Random House Canada) Jann Arden is one of Canadas best known singer-songwriters. But when she reached her 50s, her life changed in unexpected ways: she became the caregiver for her mother, who was diagnosed with Alzheimers, she became the star of the sitcom  Jann and she realized that getting older doesnt mean she cant grow, change and celebrate. ...

Bickersteths poetry features themes of displacement, history and belonging within the African diaspora. The Next Chapter13:08Bertrand Bickersteth on The Response of WeedsPoet Bertrand Bickersteth talks about his new collection The Response of Weeds, which is inspired by his experiences as a Black man in Alberta.13:08 Francesca Ekwuyasi Francesca Ekwuyasi is a Nigerian Canadian author. (Dario Lozano-Thornton) Francesca Ekwuyasi is a writer, artist and filmmaker. She was born in Lagos, Nigeria a...