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G. DeMoras: Try using games

Why are teachers blamed when students fail to learn in school? I came from a poor family; it is no excuse to be a failure. I did not know any English when I went to school and had difficulty in memorizing lessons. Nuns make learning a game. In primary grade, one wore a green crown […]

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‘Fireballing’ opens the Maine Highland Games

TOPSHAM – In a decades-long tradition of Scottish Clansmen across the Atlantic, Bill Cunningham hoisted a blazing ball of iron over his head Friday evening and began swinging. For several minutes, to the awe of a crowd of New England highlanders, Cunningham and brother-in-law Alan Lord hurled the “bonfires on a stick,” before yielding to […]

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