Working moms try to balance home and jobs

Trained in music and theater, Arlene Fins discovered a new vocation as a sculptor at the beach in 2002 by shaping a young girl's figure in the sand. Now, 7 years later, the Acton artist works from her own studio, won an award for a bronze sculpture of a woman soldier and will be showing new work at the Tower Hill Botanic Garden.

  Video: Tour Arlene Fins’ sculpture studio

For weary New Englanders, vacations didn't always mean battling traffic to a crowded beach on Cape Cod, Jet-Skiers whooshing across Lake Winnipesaukee or removing your shoes at Logan for a cramped flight to Cancun.

Video: Check out "Always Delightfully Cool" at the Boston Athenaeum

On the Table

Whatever you think of his on-screen presence, it's hard not to love Gordon Ramsay's food, especially when it is as gorgeously presented as in his new cookbook, "Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food."

Summer's the season for freshly squeezed lemonade.

A recipe for Old Fashioned Lemonade

For weary New Englanders, vacations didn't always mean battling traffic to a crowded beach on Cape Cod, Jet-Skiers whooshing across Lake Winnipesaukee or removing your shoes at Logan for a cramped flight to Cancun.

Video: Check out "Always Delightfully Cool" at the Boston Athenaeum

Q: What is meant by the term "grade of abrasive paper" and what is meant by the term "raising the grain"?

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Daily News assistant production manager Bobby Skerry must be a glutton for punishment! Last year he turned 40 and decided to run the Boston Marathon. He finished in 3 hours, 31 minutes, 40 seconds (but who's counting?). This year, he's at it again. He's 41 years old and determined to run Boston to qualify for Boston. Every day leading up to the April 21 marathon, he'll blog about getting read for the run of his life.

Read "26 by 41" here

The national economy is hovering on the brink of recession, foreclosures are hitting record levels and everyone feels the pain at the gas pump. But economics, like politics, is local. Here in MetroWest, the picture is less bleak.

Compassion is an essential element of justice, but U.S. Rep. William Delahunt's plea to free a Plymouth Marine convicted of murdering an Iraqi civilian is beyond mercy and sends a horrible message about what we will allow our military members to do in the name of combat.

"Every day teens are bombarded with messages about sex and sexuality, but oftentimes, these are not the messages we want them to hear," (Diane Luby, "Teens need facts, candor about sexual health," April 16, 2008). If you or I, as parents, wrote that statement, it would be true. Perhaps Ms. Luby was putting herself in our shoes, but in her shoes, as president and CEO of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, those words ring hollow.

Sense of community has been in decline over the last decade. Community members may know who they live near and make small talk in the summer at block parties, but they have no connection to their community at large. This problem is plaguing small towns as well as large metropolitan cities.

After a tumultuous and controversy-filled few days in which the TAB and other media reported that Mayor David Cohen inserted a $27,600 pay increase for himself into the FY09 budget, followed by public calls for him to announce that he will not seek reelection, Cohen said today that he will not run for a fourth term in 2009.

With Mother's Day just two days away, some working women who gathered at Brandeis University yesterday said archaic policies in the nation make the balancing act between motherhood and careers difficult.

Jury selection for the trial of a local man accused of hiring another man to murder his estranged wife's boyfriend will begin June 2 in Middlesex Superior Court.

Three teenage boys were arrested Tuesday evening after police say they stole a bike from a Alden Place home.

IMPROV JONES, At Newton Free Library
Improv Jones Boston, an eight-member comedic troupe, will perform short improv games similar to the style of the TV show, ``Whose Line Is It Anyway?'', at Newton Free Library, 330 Homer St., on Wednesday, May 7, 7 p.m. Audience members will offer suggestions about locations, emotions and relationships and some will even get in on the act performing in a game or two with the troupe. The troupe performs Fridays, 8 p.m., at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown. Visit improvjonesboston.com.
For information, call the library at 617-796-1360. All programs are free and open to the public.

Waltham Council on Aging events for May