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Monday, May 21, 2012

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Letter to the editor: Planning your 2012? Consult your 2011

Time is a fragile thing. Poets, painters and physicists each try to define it. You and I get to live it. But what should we do when it’s over? As in that old calendar you just took down from the kitchen wall. The pragmatists and …

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the outstanding teachers and staff in our schools, specifically School Districts 62, 63, 64, 207, Notre Dame College Prep and Our Lady of Destiny. My organization, Maine Community Youth Assistance Foundation, works with these …

Letter to the editor: Scary story in question

I read the story, “What the Sharks Caused to the Town,” in your Scary Stories segment for Oct. 27. To say that my family found it disturbing is an understatement. This story was supposed to be about Halloween. There was nothing about Halloween in the …

Letter to the Editor

In defense of Mora While the article concerning the restraining order served to taxpayer advocate Riccardo Mora last week (Norridge activist is served with restraining order, Norridge News, May 12,) did a fair job of getting Mora’s side of the story as well as Norridge President Ronald Oppedisano’s opinion of …

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Schools should keep best teachers, not tenured ones

In keeping with school board code, dozens of teachers in the suburbs received pink slips last month effectively putting their careers on hold. As a taxpayer in these financially difficult times, I understand why the pink slips are necessary. But as a parent with four …