“No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher’s dirty looks” is an old chant kids would repeat in a deliriously happy voice on the last day of school. Is it true? Is there no learning on those hot, heady days of summer? When you’re young, summer is like a spacious forest glade bordered by […]

The head of a breakaway Mormon sect, on trial for sex assault, says the practice is ordered by God.

Today First Parish market, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., First Parish Church, 40 Main St., Freeport. Featured items include jewelry, crafts and art from Maine artisans. The sale is held rain or shine. For details, visit www.firstparishmarket.com. “Living a Life of Good Deeds,” with Rabbi Judith Edelstein, 9:30 a.m. to noon, Sabbath services and discussion […]

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners was wrong to allow opening prayers at its meetings that singled out praise for a specific deity, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. In a 2-1 decision, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., ruled in favor of two county residents. The residents filed […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Dixie County officials will appeal a federal judge’s order to remove a 6-ton monument displaying the Ten Commandments in the front of their courthouse building, county attorney Jennifer Ellison said Friday. County commissioners voted 5-0 Thursday night to appeal and also seek a stay in Judge Maurice Paul’s decision requiring the granite […]

The group’s statement about Catholics comes in response to the candidate leaving the synod.

Have you ever noticed that when a controversial subject is brought up, people begin to shout at one another? Emotions take over and reason disappears. When I was young, the controversial subject was segregation vs. integration. I grew up in the North, but I did spend the sixth grade in a racially segregated public school […]