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Not yet even officially winter as I write this, and already we're off to a hard start here in the Connecticut River Valley: five snowstorms and several bouts with single-digit temperatures. But the foliage season was extraordinarily colorful and long-lived.

An article forwarded by the College from the Waterville, Maine, Morning Sentinel reports that Dick Morton ran unopposed for re-election to the position of Franklin County judge of probate, a position he has held since 1982. He was quoted as saying of this responsibility: "We end up touching the lives of a great many people in circumstances when they are the most vulnerable. It is a significant challenge to do that work well with fairness and compassion."

Scott Holland was elected to the board of directors of the New Hampshire Dance Institute at its September meeting. NHDI provides eight elementary schools with a yearlong in-school program of dance conducted by trained professionals, culminating in four annual Event of the Year performances with a live orchestra. I will be "on the beach" again in February, so please help Jon out by sending news, notes, musings, sightings, laundry lists or whatever, either bye (directly to Jon or at class Web site "green card") or snail mail. We can't do this without you!

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