Telegraph Columns

May 17, 2008

Dean Shalhoup

Dance the night away at benefit for burn camp

Some years back I met George Pessotti, who told me the story of what happened to him one spring day in 1979 when he was a young, married father of two. It was one of the most chilling stories I've ever heard. Pessotti and his family lived in Westford, Mass., at the time.

May 16, 2008

Notes from the Garden

Take a few approaches to ridding your yard of weeds

As an organic gardener, I need to know as much as I can about weeds. I don't have an "arsenal" of toxic chemicals to help me, so I have to know what is worth worrying about and have strategies to deal with the weeds. In general, weeds are pretty easy to control. Here are a few things I do.

June Lemen

Gardening becomes mother-daughter bonding activity

I decided that Lucy and I should share a mother-daughter experience of weeding. I thought that we should work on the garden beds in front of the house.

Gary Fitz

Harries leaves Astros feeling harried

Like many high school students, Bishop Guertin senior Eric Harries is probably forced to do more reading than he'd like to do in a given week. But his assigned reading reached its extreme this week in a lesson plan devised by lacrosse coach Chris Cameron.

May 15, 2008

Differing perceptions

Michael Brindley-Learning Curve

City students in English program use images to tell stories

The students involved in "The Bailey Project: ELL Culture and Transformation" all have a common bond, as students enrolled in the English Language Learner program at the city's two high schools.

Teresa Santoski -Tête-à-tête

Gardens can be full of art and entertainment

There has always been a clash of sensibilities in my family regarding the proper landscaping of our front yard and garden. Mom envisions flowering trees lining the driveway and patches of phlox sprinkling the hillside.

May 14, 2008

Dave Brooks

Don't let fear of Lyme disease spoil days or nights out in N.H.

My wife and I went to the movies the other night, but our stroll back to the car didn't have much of a romantic atmosphere: We couldn't hold hands because she was holding a tick she had pulled off her neck.

Gary Fitz

Friendly, but still rivals

Moments after finishing 1-2 in the 110-meter hurdles, the first boys event of Tuesday's Nashua North-Nashua South high school track meet, North's Ian McAfee and South's Keith Lewis headed straight for the high jump area.

Marc Bouchard

Make meat tastier with homemade brine, sauce

There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t receive a notice from my restaurant suppliers about rising food costs.

Lynda Murray

Nutritionist says to avoid ‘great white hazards’

“How can it be in the good ol’ USA that we have record numbers of kids digging their graves with their knives and forks?” questioned Ann Kulze, M.D. Looking like she just walked out of a movie set, the tiny dynamo posed this question to the hundreds of educators at a conference I attended last week.

May 13, 2008

Tom King

Merrimack still has its ace

It was almost a year ago that the Merrimack High School baseball team got its first taste of glory. Ah, a Class L championship, certainly one that wasn't expected. But who knew the Tomahawks were going to enjoy a bonus, winning a title and developing their ace for the 2008 season at the same time?

Mike Morin

How to get the perfect lawn

Get Dr. Ruth on the phone. I have bark mulch envy. What would Freud have to say about that condition? "Your parents deprived you of sandbox toys, didn't they, Mr.