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The sand on Horseneck Beach took a pounding yesterday from the ceaseless surf, while a stiff breeze jostled tents and re-routed Frisbees at the beach campground a few yards away.
Kids rode their bikes under a flawless sky, scouted for snacks among the neighbors and did what they could to keep thoughts of teachers and books at a tolerable distance.
It was the adults who pouted at the prospect of leaving paradise as Labor Day loomed.
Scallop Association looks to boost membership The American Scallop Association is looking to increase its affiliated membership.
The association, formed by a group of scallop processors in 1993 to represent the scallop industry before government agencies, is recruiting to expand its base to include all companies that market, distribute and sell scallops.
Hank Seaman
Tomorrow it begins -- again.
It'll be the first day of school in a brand-new year ... a fresh start for students and teachers alike.
Take Henry St. Julien, for example. Like the majority of his fellow Wareham High School teachers, after a summer away from "his kids," Mr. St. Julien will be psyched, primed and raring to go. At 6:30 a.m. he will arrive at the high school and go straight to Room 208 -- his classroom -- to prepare for his day. "Teacher" is only one of the many hats Henry St. Julien wears, says Principal John Amaral. Husband. Father. Cross-country track coach. Adviser to the Student Council. Church youth leader at Wareham's Church in the Pines. Mr. Amaral says the five-year veteran is just one of the many dedicated, enthusiastic and inspiring teachers at Wareham High.
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By Ric Oliveira, Standard-Times staff writer
When Fall River's Tel Chasse thinks about her job, her face lights up.
A week ago, after carrying around a small package for nine months, she added another responsibility to her duties and she couldn't be happier.
Little Chyanne, all of 7 days old, also appears very happy with her caretaker.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia -- Divers battling murky, choppy seas found crucial clues on the ocean floor yesterday -- one of the two flight recorders of Swissair Flight 111 and three large pieces of wreckage believed to be the plane's fuselage.
It was a major breakthrough for investigators, who previously had gathered little concrete evidence to shed light on why the MD-11 jetliner plunged into the sea Wednesday, killing all 229 people on board.
Another search team, using airborne gas-detection equipment, said it had located 19 concentrations of human remains on the seabed. Douglas Copp of American Rescue Team International said it was too early to tell how many bodies might be at those locations.
WASHINGTON -- Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman said he hopes President Clinton can serve out his term with nothing more serious than a congressional censure, but two fellow Democrats were talking yesterday about impeachment and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said mere censure is unlikely.
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., also opposed censure, saying Congress should carry out its constitutional duty and decide whether Clinton should be held accountable for impeachable offenses in connection with his affair with Monica Lewinsky or other matters.
State's No. 2 spot up for grabs Candidates differ on finer points Editor's note: This is one in a series of feature stories about this year's contested statewide primary races. This story looks at the two Democratic candidates for lieutenant governor.By Patrick Collins, Ottaway News Service
BOSTON -- One candidate has campaigned in a Leominster diner at 3 a.m. and on a Cape Cod beach under a blazing sun.
The other has covered so much ground criss-crossing the state that she has worn out more shoes than she can count.
Far from the glare of television cameras, Sen. Warren Tolman of Watertown and Governor's Council member Dorothy Kelly Gay, of Somerville, are waging a quiet but hard-fought battle for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor.
LOWELL -- Two nurses at Lowell General Hospital have been fired after a baby was given to the wrong mother last month.
Two other employees were suspended following an internal investigation into the incident in which a nurse's aide woke a Billerica woman on the morning of Aug. 17 and gave her the wrong baby to nurse, The Sun of Lowell reported.
"Regrettably, this incident did occur, and we're sorry for it," said Robert Donovan, the hospital's president.
WEST BOYLSTON -- State police said yesterday that they want to question two people in connection with the deaths of six puppies apparently thrown from a highway overpass earlier in the weekend.
State Trooper John Atlas said that authorities were looking for a couple seen last week at a methadone clinic in Worcester. Several witnesses have told police the two were trying to give away six to eight puppies.
The pups, believed to be German shepherd mixes, matched the description of those found dead Saturday by a jogger in West Boylston, Atlas said.
"Communion" means "act of sharing" or "possession in common," but communion as in Eucharist today means confusion and division, interchurch and intrachurch.
Disparate, conflicting notions about communion, based on church doctrine and temporal power positions among Christian institutions -- and toss in some extremist views, left and right -- are having the very opposite of the desired effect which is to come together as one in the sharing of Christ's body and blood.
It's easy to take altar flowers for granted. Every week they quietly grace places of worship without, when done properly, calling too much attention to themselves. But to those who arrange, gather and sometimes cultivate the flowers, they are an important way of serving God and their churches.
"Arranging flowers is a lot like prayer," said Suzy Askew Lautar, a landscape architect who regularly spends part of her Saturdays at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Memphis, Tenn., seeing to the flowers for the altar. "I get a lot out of the very act of doing it."
Compiled from staff reports
The week ahead? Fantastic. The day ahead? Breathtaking.
Yes, sports fans should be in their glory this week, with everything getting off to an explosive start today.
It's a good time for a day off, with ESPN's coverage of the Cubs-Cardinals game getting everything started at 2 p.m.
Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa go head-to-head, with McGwire needing one homer to tie Roger Maris' record, two to break it. Sosa is right behind at 58, and today's game seems like the perfect opportunity to make history with the world watching.
ST. LOUIS -- First guy to hit one over the Gateway Arch wins.
The schedule says Cubs at Cardinals, but baseball fans everywhere know better. Make it Mark McGwire vs. Sammy Sosa, starting this afternoon.
"It's going to be unbelievable, you know," Sosa said. "There's going to be a lot of people cheering for Mark McGwire and me. And, hey, we'll see how it goes."
McGwire at 60, Sosa at 58. Home run derby, for real. History on deck, the whole country watching them take aim at Roger Maris' record of 61.
PROVIDENCE, R.I.
Mr. Powell, our driver's ed teacher, told us to keep both hands on the wheel and eyes on the road. We wonder what he would have thought of the new Ford 1999 Windstar minivan, which comes with an optional "conversation mirror" that allows Mom to look at the kids in the back while she's driving.
The Windstar happens to get high marks for safety: It performs well in crash tests and has air bags all over the place. That's just as well for its passengers, whose driver may be distracted by a backseat brawl between Suzy and Johnny as an idiot in a pickup cuts right in front of her. As for the innocents sharing the road, good luck to them.
On this Labor Day, if you happen to take some time from shopping or picnics or the summer's last dip in a nearby swimming pool to reflect on the union movement, you might consider one of the strikes in the news recently. It seems that some 6,100 pilots of Northwest Airlines, whose average annual earnings are somewhere between $122,000 (the union's version) and $133,000 (the company's claim), are seeking a 15 percent raise hike over five years, which would provide something in excess of a living wage.
I'm not going to pretend that the incomes of these pilots are typical of workers today or even argue that they have no case to make for themselves, but I would like to suggest that this union and its purposes could serve as a symbol that the bad old days of industrialism are mostly gone in the United States.
By Michelle Williams, Associated Press writer
hey mosey past Emotional Ocean, Pregnancy Pass, Career Move Hill and Menopause Mountain before riding the trail into the sunset at Paradise Ranch.
They talk about sex, families, relationships and failures experienced along the sometimes bumpy path.
But the biggest reward for women saddling up for a game of Cowgirls Ride the Trail of Truth is connecting with their girlfriends and learning a little more about themselves, said game creator Prasuti Kirk. (As an adult, Kirk changed her name from Millicent to Prasuti, which means mother of divine children.)
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