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Transformers inspired a family to hunt for a mechanical mammoth. Here’s what we found.

A recent Beetle Bailey strip (12/15) featured Sarge complaining that “Zero confuses me.” Corporal Yo (the only Asian soldier at Camp Swampy) offers Sarge a book, “Dummies for Dummies.” So cartoonists Greg and Mort Walker continue to think that making...

Bill Hennessey’s recent (Dec. 8) letter about the Highshot Prize “show” attributes the ’60s “For What It’s Worth” to the Jefferson Airplane. It was actually written by Steven Stills and recorded by Buffalo Springfield. As the song suggests, like...

An article in the Monitor (Friday, 11/25) by Michaela Towfighi, “Funds approved to extend emergency hotel stays,” reports that the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee has approved, and the Executive Council has agreed to a proposal for the state to...

I just received an additional update to my annual notice of changes (ANOC) from my Medicare Advantage provider. Maybe you other seniors did, too. It read, in part, “Good news. Starting January 1, 2023, you will pay $0 for the shingles vaccine, tetanus...

Many military heroes acquire a nickname during their careers. Think General John “Black Jack” Pershing or General “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf or General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Now, after executing an astonishing “about face” let General Don...

I want to thank Publisher Steve Leone and his team for making the tough decision to stop publishing the Sunday TV guide in paper form and in the process, move the comics into Section D. To me, a 40-year subscriber, the most important thing is to keep...

With a replacement now being sought under the MoD’s New Medium Helicopter (NMH) program, Leonardo believes it has the answer, with its AW149.

Award-winning engineer and builder was behind several Burlington landmarks

COVID Tracker will keep on trackin’ The average number of new cases reported daily has fallen sharply since mid-April – not quite as sharply as when it rose last November, but almost. NH DHHS—Courtesy Published: 6/13/2021 9:53:04 AM The people have spoken, or at least a subset of them have, and the Tracker will keep on trackin’ for the time being. Last week we asked readers whether they thought the winding down of the pandemic meant this weekly look at the state’s COVID-19 status coul...