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Toni Morrison builds a fitting ‘Home’

BY JANICE P. NIMURA Newsday “HOME” By Toni Morrison Alfred A. Knopf, $24 “I was trying to take the scab off the ’50s, the general idea of it as very comfortable, happy, nostalgic. Mad Men. Oh, please,” Toni Morrison told an interviewer a few weeks ago. The Nobel Prize-winner was referring to her 10th and […]

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Canaan’s Calder earns engineering degree

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Andrew R. Calder, 21, of Canaan and Burlington, Vt., recently received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from University of Vermont’s College of Engineering and Mechanical Sciences.

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Madison voter registrar office hours announced

MADISON — The registrar’s office will be open 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday the week before Election Day, June 12. Evening hours will be 5-7 p.m. Tuesday to register new voters in person and make name and/or address corrections.

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Plum Creek awards student scholarships

FAIRFIELD — Plum Creek recently announced the local students who were awarded scholarships. Plum Creek awards $1,000 scholarships annually to exemplary high school students who plan to continue their education. Students are selected based on academic achievements, participation in extracurricular activities and career goals.

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Marandola graduates valedictorian of class

PHILADELPHIA — Tyler Marandola of Madison recently graduated summa cum laude from Temple University James Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia as valedictorian of his class with a grade-point average of 3.91. He also received four awards.

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Strong debut novel depicts life in a Shaker community

BY OLINE H. COGDILL Sun Sentinel A SIMPLE MURDER By Eleanor Kuhns Minotaur, $24.99 During the mid-19th century, the Shakers were the largest and most successful utopian group in existence, with tight-knit communities scattered throughout the Northeast and in Kentucky. The religious sect, which began in England during the late 1700s, stressed equality of the […]