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Wild game dinner planned in Unity

UNITY — Unity College will host its sixth annual sportsmen’s conference and wild game dinner Friday, April 13, at the Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 4 Depot St. Appetizers will served at 4:30 p.m, dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m.

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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Science and doubting, educated conservatives

With so many scientific issues becoming battlefields in the culture wars — from climate change to stem-cell research to evolution — we hardly needed a new study to tell us that scientists have become a favorite target of the right. Yet a paper written by University of North Carolina doctoral fellow Gordon Gauchat and published last week in the American Sociological Review also contains a highly counterintuitive finding.

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Tiny eels worth big bucks

PORTLAND — Tiny translucent elvers — alien-looking baby eels the size of toothpicks, with big black eyes and spines — are mysterious creatures, floating thousands of miles from their birthplace in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean before ending up each spring in Maine’s rivers and streams.

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SAD 53 has ‘hit the cliff’

PITTSFIELD — The School Administrative District 53 Board got its first official look at the proposed 2012-13 budget Monday, and as Superintendent Michael A. Gallagher put it, “We’ve hit the cliff this year.”