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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 every year. The time change comes at 2 a.m. Sunday, so be prepared, again, to lose an hour of sleep,...

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 that do not have adequate internet access.  A public hearing was held Feb 8. No further hearings a...

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, would be abrupt and final. A series of doctors “leaned a little forward in their chairs and sai...