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    Nels Nelson at a landfill in Ethiopia.

    'Itchy feet' spurs global adventure

    After working in an 89-acre field in central Ethiopia all day, Andover native Nels Nelson returns to his home and writes an email, where he says "for better or worse, I'm a bit of a wanderlust."
    Since graduating from Andover High in 2003, Nelson's life has been filled with travel.

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  • Dalton column: Learning to write their mind

    The first-graders were fascinated by the young girl on the poster, and especially her face. The young girl was about their age when the poster was created 65 years ago.
    I'd been invited to speak on the subject of writing to the first-graders at Shawsheen School, and I was feeling some trepidity, because it is not an age group with whom I regularly speak. Mrs. Susan Infantine, their teacher who'd invited me, had been helpful by explaining where her students were in their sentence development, and I had the help of my granddaughter, Elena Dalton, who was in the class and answered questions I had beforehand.

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  • MOTIVATION THAT MOVES: Stunt bike champ speaks against bullying

    While riding a bike around the gym at South Elementary School, world stunt biking champion Chris Poulos asks the kids what they fear most.
    One student describes a TV show he watched, and another mentions a movie that scared her. Towards the front of the gym, a girl says she's afraid of clowns. Students throughout the gym chuckle.

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  • Seifert column: Lessons of kindergarten still do ring true

    Today at breakfast my head was spinning with topics and arguments: political civil war, too many illegal immigrants, Europe is finished, where will we get oil, windmills are the answer, we need more vacant houses, we have a lousy health system, we must legalize drugs because there's nothing we can do about it, and on and on and on. My God, if I listened to the TV "experts," and believed them, I'd be afraid to get out of the bed each morning.

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