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A few weeks ago, I read in this paper that the city is exploring the idea of replacing grass on its sports fields with artificial turf. If you’ve been reading these articles about refuse, the evils of plastic and items made with it, you can probably...

By GAIL PAGE

When I was a kid many decades ago, Halloween started in mid October with some lighted, hand-carved pumpkins on the neighborhood porches, and us kids asking each other “What are you gonna be for Halloween?”  The common answers were a witch, a ghost, a...

By GAIL PAGE

This series of articles is about reducing our impact on the environment by reducing or avoiding single use products that, once used, are thrown away. Away where? Mostly to landfills or roadsides. So this week let's tackle some “disposable” household...

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Does going back to school have to cost an arm and a leg? And does it have to be a fashion competition? No and No. I read recently that the cost of school clothes and supplies has gone up 25% since last year. I suspect parents’ incomes have not had...

By GAIL PAGE

Gail Page lives in Concord. There is a daily death toll reported in the war on Ukraine by Russia. We also learn from the media what buildings and infrastructure have been destroyed and in which Ukrainian cities. People on the street relate the horror...

By GAIL PAGE

Because I tend to wear the same clothes for years, even decades, I'd never heard of “Fast Fashion” until recently. I'm pretty sure my ignorance of it also has to do with the distant decade I was born in. Back then I dare say trends tended to last at...

By GAIL PAGE

I just spent the Fourth of July weekend with my extended family at a summer cottage. We converged from four different directions for our annual gathering. There's a long wooden table on the screened porch for meals and games. We covered it with a...

By GAIL PAGE

Gravity. Ya gotta love it, right? It mostly serves our purpose to stay “grounded.”On the other hand, humans have always been fascinated with the idea of floating through the air by one means or another. And when we personally can’t do that, we make...

By GAIL PAGE

It seems  as though the topic of plastic refuse is a wide open, far ranging  topic and gets wider by the day.  I intend to spend some time this week on plastic drinking bottles but first I need to acknowledge Lynn's email received following the...

By GAIL PAGE

Hello readers, this is Gail Page of Concord, retired social worker, and life-long seeker of nature's well-being.  For the last many decades, Hollywood has produced a ton of sci-fi movies about alien invasions. The movie makers seem to understand that...