Field Notes
by Peter B Brace
     BATS IN THE ATTIC During this hot, humid weather New England typically experiences in late summer, Little Brown Bats and Big Brown Bats that like to roost and raise their young in the attics of homes and rafters of barns, are sometimes forced down out of the hot upper floors of buildings and into h
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The Lighthouse Keeper
BY DANIEL W. DRAKE ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
     Dolphins swim alongside Shearwater about 30 miles northeast of Nantucket on Sunday. DAN DRTAKE/The Independent
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YACK on: Beach Party
Grant Sanders
     Summer is done you say? The time for beach parties is over? Oh, contraire my brothers and sisters. September is the season for beach parties. The water
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Pet Tracks
Jan Jaeger
     HURRICANE POWER We have watched with horror and dismay as our neighbors to the south have attempted to come to grips with the devastation brought by Hurricane Katrina. Certainly, the heartbreakingly
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