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...local senior-citizen center and responding to numerous requests from kids to come speak at their schools. Tuttle dedicated his $600 in left-over campaign funds to the Tunbridge public library, and he is going back into the movie business. Tuttle's biggest campaign boost was his role in neighbor and campaign-manager John O'Brien's satiric film Man with a Plan, about an upstart campaigner. Tuttle has a bit part in O'Brien's next film, Nosey Parker. This time he plays a villain...
Epps defended Harvard's decision to sign on, in part to be a "good neighbor" and compare notes with local colleges...
Your kid won't stop begging for a Furby, right? She says they squawk in kiddie gibberish and make gurgling noises and sing songs. And you've driven to every mall in the state and still can't find it. Your next-door neighbor traded his car for a dozen on a black-market website, but he's hoarding them until just before Christmas, prime time for scalping. You're stuck with a K Mart waiting list and cheerful lies from salespeople: "We'll call you soon." Makes you wanna gouge those adorable Furby eyes right out of their electronic...
Beside a dead maple, my neighbor from the next farm, Mark Shepard, cradles a Remington .280 rifle. I am a spectator today. So is Mark's son Glenn, 14. Glenn, a crack shot, has hunted turkey and pheasant with shotguns and deer with bow and arrow. But in New York State, he cannot legally go after deer with a gun until he is 16. That doesn't matter today. Glenn is excited but silent, testing the wind with a wet finger, flicking his eyes through the woods like any good hunter, alert to motion...
Part of the change may be due to women. The number of women hunters has doubled in the past 10 years to 2.6 million. Some, like my neighbor in upstate New York, Karolyn Kern Shepard, Glenn's mother, are as fiercely competitive as men; Karolyn was taught to hunt by her father. But hunters' organizations claim the arrival of new women hunters, including a number of single mothers taking their children out, has dampened the trophy mentality. One woman in Alabama recently took up hunting and says it saved her marriage; she finally had something she and her husband enjoyed...