The Commons: a sanctuary for the introvert, the socialite, the band geek, the academic, the bake-seller. Its wood is eaten away by moisture and age and use, its ceiling arched in the
It’s officially December which means your Arts & Culture columnists are back again with our seasonal favorites. So, as the temperature drops below 30 degrees and snow starts to fall, it’s time
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As Halloween approaches, so too does the Annual Tate Library Pumpkin Decorating Contest. Excitement grows as the Fieldston community and advisory groups start strategizing how they will decorate their pumpkins in order
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Lewiston, Maine’s second-largest city, was not the type of place where bad things happened. Home to four colleges, it was a calm, community-driven oasis, not a place where people feared for their
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Today Fieldston students were drowned, not in schoolwork, but in a torrential downpour leading to flooding all over. Hearing the students’ hopes, the administration announced an early dismissal. All around the school,
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This summer, I volunteered as a teacher’s assistant at a preschool for children aged 2 to 4. For five weeks, my mornings began with circle time and singing, followed by arts and
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