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Anyone can see the effect the recent economic recession has had on public facilities. Falling tax collections have led to budget cuts resulting in layoffs of public workers. Parks, schools, playgrounds and buildings are looking increasingly shabby. But public-spirited volunteers can make a big difference.

Envision meeting with the great Sigmund Freud to discuss the joy of love, the purpose of sex, the existence of God and the meaning of life. Two fine actors bring the words of Mark St. Germain to realization in this clever piece taken from Dr. Armand M. Nicholi Jr.’s bestselling book, “The Question of God.”

Q: Our dog, Rex, has been feeling kinda puny lately. He isn't eating and seems really tired. My friend was over yesterday day and drained his car radiator. Rex licked up some of this fluid. He seemed to like it. Now my brother told me that radiator water is poisonous to dogs. Is that true? What should I do?

It is history’s best-documented story of genocide, the attempt to extinguish a whole people: the Holocaust.

When all else fails, blame the immigrants. It is a time tested,

It’s summer and parents of college students know one thing: it’s the time of year when your little birds find their way back to the nest, hauling a trailer full of stuff they collected over the last two semesters.

Bright as the gold that lured the settlers to the New World, a dandelion thrusts its shaggy head from the embrace of the gnarled paper mulberry roots in Colonial Williamsburg.

OK, it has met all the qualifications; it has passed all the tests: Winter 2012 is now officially ridiculous. I mean, fashionably late is one thing, but if you were invited to an office wine-and-cheese TGIF that started at 6 would you still be home dithering over what to wear next February?

Starting in Sitka, “The Historic America Bus Tour” visits all of the historical highlights of this former “Russian Capitol.”

I am experiencing a strange, disquieting sensation. I feel