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Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: Sharing a birthday with Abe — and the flu

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Birthdays are usually nice, but hindsight being pretty good, I should have skipped my last one.

Of lynx, roundups and eels

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Today's wildlife management and conservation movements have long been dedicated to trying to right old wrongs.

Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: ‘Nuts' to squirrels and Ike as a boy statue

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Grandson Ike and I walked over to the little brook the other day to throw pebbles. We brought along some nuts for the squirrels. We had fun.

John Harrigan: A midwinter night's dream -- Mice and me

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After much procrastination (we blamed unusual weather, poor trail conditions, busy schedules and so on), we're heading into camp over Washington's Birthday weekend (sorry, “Presidents'...

Scene In Manchester: Ukulele madness sweeps city

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Ukuleles are now the unofficial city instrument of Manchester.

Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: Comments, laments and micro-what?

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Observations, and lamentations, on the past week’s news.

Addressing some odds and ends

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On "localvores," gun issues, and the often-unpronounced "r" in "February."

Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: From one to 90 and a whole lot in between

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Mike, the 1-year-old grandson, is taking a music appreciation class. This makes all the sense in the world to me but the jury is still out on whether Mike appreciates it.

Rabbits, hares preposition, splitting hairs

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I was looking out the window while doing dishes Friday morning, pondering a swirl of snow (the rest of the state was getting freezing rain and sleet) and thinking several thoughts: where did January...

Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: Mind-boggling news you may have missed

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Sometimes the really important news items get lost in the manic maelstrom of the daily media mashup.

Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: Mind-boggling news you may have missed

READER COMMENTS: 8

Sometimes the really important news items get lost in the manic maelstrom of the daily media mashup.

Northern Pass: taking land for greed, not need

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What do you do when a foreign for-profit company wants to run cheap, supposedly “green” electricity down through some of the most beautiful farm-and-forest countryside left in the...

1 Under snow, leading lives we seldom see

3 Time for the 'localvores' to step up

1 Wishful thinking on New Year's

24 Would be no doubt as to where Loeb stood

0 Rotary sings for Santa

2 Last-minute thoughts for Christmas

5 On the primary, holidays and ... painted toes?

2 Scene in Manchester: Sweet find highlights latest draw downtown

1 John Harrigan's Woods, Water & Wildlife: Ideas for desperate shoppers

8 Publisher's Notebook: One elf on a shelf is more than enough

4 Scene in Manchester: Signs of the season

7 What is it about deer hanging in the yard?

6 Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: What would Shirer have made of Skype?

1 Scene in Manchester: Mayor Gatsas, Santa were college roomies

9 There is danger in everything we do

0 Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: Biden, Mercier said it well

1 Scene in Manchester: Mustaches grow for a good cause

0 Drake's camp: Nothing like it, or like him