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REGION Despite recent rainfall, Franklin and Androscoggin counties have remained in drought.gov’s abnormally dry conditions category for three consecutive weeks. Livestock farmers and hay producers are crossing their fingers that Maine doesn’t cross into the more dry thresholds this season as they still feel the effects of last fall’s severe drought conditions.
According to drought.gov, 55.7% of Maine is currently in the abnormally dry condition with 100% of Franklin and Androscoggin counties in this classification for three consecutive weeks.
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“We’re still on the tail end of last year’s weather so hay is pretty expensive,” John Wright of Sparkplug Farm in Leeds said in a phone interview.
Now that beloved children’s-book author Dr Seuss is an “outlaw”, according to US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and conservative pundit Ben Shapiro is stockpiling strategic reserves of If I Ran the Zoo, parents face a desperate conundrum. What can they possibly read to their children?
If that paragraph makes no sense, good for you: The Great Seuss Hysteria of 2021 is a faux controversy if there ever was one, worth following only for what it reveals about children’s literature and the limits of adults’ imaginations.
The short, sensible summary is as follows. Dr Seuss Enterprises, which controls Theodor Geisel’s copyrights, decided not to print more copies of six works that contain racist imagery. This ought to be relatively uncontroversial. The books won’t be pulled from public consumption, as Disney did with
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Centreline Architecture will be doing the feasibility study of the AB Ellis building for the Rainbow Community Non-Profit Housing. They are a Sudbury-based architectural firm that was founded in 2007 and employs eight team members. Some of the projects they have worked on have been an integrated site plan for The Junction; new facilities for Maple Hill Farm; a 20-unit residential conversion in downtown Sudbury; new exterior stairs for the historic Christ the King Church and project management for the McEwen School of Architecture. Its website indicates it has been recognized with a ‘small enterprise’ award and have been a finalist for both ‘best customer service’ and ‘the best place to work’ at the Sudbury Chamber of Commerce Bell Business Excellence Awards.