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Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   To the editor: I encourage Putney voters to cast their ballots for Aileen Chute for Putney Select Board. I volunteered with Aileen at the PCS After School Forest Program (which she now directs), and saw first hand, her dedication to our community’s kids and families. She is thoughtful, patient, and solutions-based. But she brings so much more: how lucky the Select Board would be to have someone with her experience as an IT professional! Aileen truly “walks the walk;” she has spent hours serving our town, and she has develope...

Macamathehou in Lincolnshire and the evidence for people named Muhammad in medieval England The aim of the following draft is to offer some thoughts on a local name from thirteenth-century Lincolnshire, Macamathehou, that involves a version of the Arabic name Muhammad (Middle English Makomet/Macamethe, Old French Mahomet). Whilst it has been plausibly seen as an instance of a variant of the name of Muhammed being used to mean 'heathen', 'pagan idol' or similar (based on the false but common medieval Christian belief that the prophet Muhammad was worshipped as a god), here in reference to a...

Published: 3:42 PM February 23, 2021    Offshore windfarm turbines are among projects to be eyeing a presence in Suffolk - Credit: Eastern Daily Press � 2006 Developers behind large energy projects in Suffolk have been told not to expect support unless the potential harms they bring to the county's environment are appropriately addressed. Suffolk County Council's cabinet on Tuesday afternoon agreed a new energy response policy in light of the growing number of nationally significant energy generation projects eyeing Suffolk locations. So far, those include the Sizewell C nuclear energy fa...

Published: 3:42 PM February 23, 2021    Offshore windfarm turbines are among projects to be eyeing a presence in Suffolk - Credit: Eastern Daily Press � 2006 Developers behind large energy projects in Suffolk have been told not to expect support unless the potential harms they bring to the county's environment are appropriately addressed. Suffolk County Council's cabinet on Tuesday afternoon agreed a new energy response policy in light of the growing number of nationally significant energy generation projects eyeing Suffolk locations. So far, those include the Sizewell C nuclear energy fa...

A Mystery in the Woods: The Ye Olde Robbins Burial Ground By Thomas K. Robbins It had been raining the entire trip from Havre de Grace, Md., to Allentown in November 2004. I parked near the granite marker on the side of New Canton-Stone Tavern Road (Route 524) and looked for the trailhead. Finding it, I made my way up the hill trying to avoid falling into the briers that lined the trail. Rough stones, arranged in rows, appeared as I reached the top of the hill, and beyond them white headstones sprouted from the ground like ghosts lending a haunting appearance to the scene.