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Details: Category: Library news; 25 May 2022; Last Updated: 06 March 2023; Hits: 439

Arlington’s director of libraries, Andrea Nicolay, has accepted the position of executive director of the Albany Public Library in Albany, N.Y. Her last day in Arlington will be Friday, July 1. “Andre...

UPDATED, Sept. 18: Years from now, when the pandemic is a distant memory (and yes, it will be one day), Robbins Library wants to tell people what life was like when this worldwide event was happening...

Library Grab Bags, the new service available at the Robbins Library, aims to bring back some of the ease and joy of browsing library shelves even as library indoors remain closed for public safety. An...

Tony and Jeff Whittemore head for Montreal. / 1967 family photo A film by an Arlington director is included at the Boston International Kids Film Festival, taking place from Nov. 18-20 at the Mosesian...

Details: Category: Recreation; 05 November 2015; Last Updated: 25 May 2023; Hits: 257

Dog owners, bike riders and parents of young children offered suggestions about how to improve conditions at Menotomy Rocks Park during off-leash hours at a public hearing at Town Hall on Wednesday, N...

Details: Category: People; 26 September 2022; 26 September 2022; Last Updated: 05 March 2023; Hits: 1723

Tony and Jeff Whittemore head for Montreal. / 1967 family photo UPDATED Sept. 22: In 1967 two young boys and their beloved pony took off on a monthlong adventure that brought them fame, fun and a weal...

Details: Category: People; 28 May 2022; 28 May 2022; Hits: 1723

Sue Barry For most of Sue Barry’s life, a snowfall appeared to her as a flat sheet with no depth, and she was merely looking in on it. At the age of 48, all that changed. Tree branches formed arcs wit...

Noah Hurowitz aims to go beyond El Chapo story. / Jacqueline Hall photo When Noah Hurowitz entered Joan Black’s third-grade class at Dallin, she found him to be “filled with intellectual curiosity. Wh...

Abigail McMurray looks through one of her stencils. / Photo by Helen Makadia Abigail McMurray grew up in a home where it was OK to make a mess. Her mother, a homemaker, enjoyed woodworking and gardeni...

Joined in music are John Kusiak, right, with his son, Ben . UPDATED, June 10: The scene is a busy street in New York City in 1910. A piano plays, and we see horses and buggies clip-clopping by as men...

Edith Stevens at work in undated photo from www.edithstevens.com . Rob Davison grew up in a two-family house on Churchill Avenue, his parents and siblings downstairs, his Aunt Edith upstairs. They liv...

Olympia Dukakis / Everett Collection UPDATED, May 2: Olympia Dukakis, the veteran stage and screen actress whose flair for maternal roles helped her win an Oscar as Cher's mother in the romantic comed...