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By GRACE MATTERN

Grace Mattern of Northwood is a writer, artist, social justice activist, and member of Third Act. Like most Americans, I’m concerned about climate change and the drastic weather events it’s causing. As an outdoor enthusiast, I’m dismayed by our...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I’ve spent the better part of the winter in California, arriving at the first of the year in a rare atmospheric river producing gale...

By DAN ATTORRI

Coe-Brown Northw00d Academy senior and Northwood resident Aidan Cox earned All-American status by finishing fifth in the 5,000 meters at the New Balance Indoor Nationals in Boston, Mass., on Saturday.Cox, a University of Virginia commit who set the...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Artificial intelligence, in the form of large-scale language models like ChatGPT, is causing some to say the sky is falling. My biggest...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. James Speth, the former dean of Environmental Studies at Yale, made this confession. He had previously considered the greatest...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. New Hampshire has done it again: increasing our gambling addiction rather than passing a broad-based tax.New Hampshire has a checkered...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Writing my first draft on a computer doesn’t work for me. I lose my mojo. Yet, if I scribble my thoughts in my left-handed scowl on...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I wrote last week about why our national economy can’t endlessly grow, and neither can individuals. That has viscerally hit home for me...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

A renovated barn in Northwood burned down Friday afternoon in below-freezing temperatures, displacing residents from their home and sending one person to the hospital. The barn in the rear had been converted into a living room and bedroom space...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. The sky is falling, cried the media last week. Headlines blared that China’s population has started declining and will shrink...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Mass delusions were unheard of for those old enough to be around in 1978. We were flabbergasted when we heard Jim Jones had induced his...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I’ve written before about how I’ve been trying to focus on positive alternatives to counteract today’s dominant “the sky is falling”...

By GRACE MATTERN

My husband and I served as volunteer election monitors on Nov. 3. When we arrived at the polling location in a neighboring town, there was a large truck parked in the lot so the sign in the rear cab window faced those pulling in: “ZERO WHITE GUILT.”I...

By JEAN STIMMELL

According to the Cleveland Clinic, a delusional disorder, previously called paranoid disorder, is a serious mental illness in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. The main feature of this disorder is the presence of...

By JEAN STIMMELL

I had a dream the other night I can’t shake: I am driving through a desolate land, over a maze of logging trails, trying to find the location of my new job, when suddenly a giant snapping turtle, almost as wide as my truck, steps into the path and...