For Easter every year in Vrondados on the Greek island of Chios, villagers carry on a 19th-century tradition in which parishioners of two churches attack the other's building with homemade rockets during midnight Mass.

Here we are only one week into the new, friendlier, ‘consultative' Kelly Lamrock, and, in response to the Ombudsman's indictment of the sham Croll and Less process, he has returned to the biased ways that landed him in trouble with Judge McLellan.

Thumbs Up to the Millstream Volunteer Fire Department whose members annually volunteer their time at the Sussex Regional High School prom by directing traffic and parking cars. Thank you. Submitted

Professional cyclist, Sussex native

451 Tenth recorded perielion passage of Halley's Comet

Two hundred and seventy people convicted of no crime languish in Guantanamo, and the British parliament has just voted to extend detention without trial to 42 days. In both the United States and Britain, governments that attack civil liberties in the name of security still rule. But in the past week the tide has turned in both countries.

I heard a word the other day which nicely describes the weather hereabouts. Apparently the term is "June-uary."

There is a fork in the road ahead, and the question that presents itself is, will Education Minister Kelly Lamrock know which road to take when he reaches the fork?

Thumbs Up to Cheryl Diotte and Lloyd Keirstead and the Scout troops who were spotted picking up trash on Main and Peter streets two weekends ago—what a great example of leading by example!—Submitted

SUSSEX—Journalism student Jamie Ross joined the Kings County Record for a 12-week summer internship last week. Ross, who graduated from Sussex Regional High School in 2004, has just completed his second year of studies at St. Thomas University.

A great deal of talk, with unhappy parents, is going on with the question of the French program in New Brunswick.