Kelly, who works for Big Blue, explains; is baffled.
Possible turkey/peacock hybrid spotted in Littleton; what happens when they start breeding with coyotes?
The US Geological Survey reports a magnitude-2.5 earthquake at 1:25 a.m., centered one mile west of Littleton Common.
Why Does the Earth Quake in New England?
The Cape Ann Earthquake of 1755, which occasioned a lament:
O God of Mercy thou art good,
Thou Care for us did take,
When by thy Hand thou did Command,
the Earth and Sea to shake.
What Heart so hard that can't be jarr'd,
when thoug the Earth doth shake :
O Lord what Eye can then be dry,
In terrible EARTHQUAKE. ...
Last week, Littleton selectmen fired a police officer facing charges in two separate criminal cases. Tomorrow evening, the school superintendent and the police chief hold an emergency meeting for parents to discuss a "Staff Member on Administrative Leave of Absence," Kelly reports, adding an e-mail from the superintendent also mentioned "navigating uncharted territory."
Kelly lets her frozen fingers thaw before reporting on Littleton High School's annual powder-puff football game - between girls in the senior and junior classes:
... Small towns have elevated these kinds of events into high art, and my small town is no exception. The girl, having been selected quarterback of the senior class team, has been hard at work all last week at football practice. The Love Bug is decked out in hot pink ribbons, color of the senior class. The girl herself walked out of here tonight in black spandex pants with the numbers "07″ in hot pink tape on her rear end. ...
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