BRUNSWICK — Hundreds of donors, parishioners and businesses have raised more than $4 million toward the completion of the new All Saints Parish Multipurpose Facility in Brunswick, the Catholic diocese announced Thursday. “The community is overjoyed at the progress being made,” said Jim Baskerville, general chair of the steering committee overseeing the campaign. “Inside […]

When I was growing up in suburban New York, Hanukkah was not grounded in religious observance. Having no clue that there are traditional Hebrew blessings that accompany the kindling of the Hanukkah candles, we invented our own wishes, awkwardly voiced out loud, for happiness and peace. Then again, the festival of Hanukkah demands the performance […]

The first surprise about our rescue puppy was that she wasn’t a puppy. “She’s about nine months old, nearly full grown,” the vet said last month, prying apart the jaws of the pup we’d named Fable. “She has all her adult teeth.” “I knew it!” I said to my husband, Dana, when he drove her […]