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Category: Current Events
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Sure, It’s Raining. But It’s Still the Start of Summer in New York City.
The wet Memorial Day weekend did not quite live up to the celebration of the city’s reopening that many New Yorkers were hoping for, but they made the best of it.
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Caught Between Two Countries, a Minnesota Resort Area Still Feels Lockdown Blues
Covid may be waning. But businesses at the Northwest Angle, a tourist-dependent slice of Minnesota accessible by land only from Canada, still feel the pain.
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‘It’s Going to Be a Big Summer for Hard Seltzer’
Sales exploded to $4 billion last year, from about $500 million in 2018. Dozens of brands will compete to be the boozy, bubbly drink of the season.
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Lois Ehlert, Creator of Boldly Colored Children’s Books, Dies at 86
Ms. Ehlert, whose best-known book was “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom,” made distinctive collage artwork for readers ranging in age from infancy to 10.