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It’s really truly happening: Patrick Stewart has been cast in a new Star Trek series. Stewart will reprise his iconic character, Jean-Luc Picard, for a CBS All Access series that “will tell the story of the next chapter of Picard’s life.” Stewart himself just announced the news in a surprise appearance at the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention. “I will always be very proud to have been a part of Star Trek: The Next Generation, but when we wrapped that final movie in the spring of 2002, I truly felt my time with Star Trek had run its natural course,”...

Subscribers of Comcast Cable will be ambushed tonight with Degrassi - "The Next Generation" 8:00 p.m. tonight.

There are 2 billion children running around the planet and five new ones born every second. But don't expect any pink-and-blue congratulations from Adrianne Frost. In fact, the author and comedian would be just as happy if you took every little bugger and muzzled him — on the subway, in stores, in restaurants, churches, parks and, well, everywhere. Treasonous? Exactly! "You have every right not to like children who are ill-behaved," says Frost, who puts just about anyone under 3 feet tall in that category. "Just because they're children doesn't mean that it's okay for them to act the way...

President’s Essay Contest Final Winner The final winning essay from the Tewksbury Library / Tewksbury Women’s Club President’s Day Essay Contest appears below. Once again, we offer congratulations to all the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students who entered the contest. George W. Bush 43rd President by (name witheld), 5th Grade It is hard to write about a President who has only been in office for thirteen months, but President Bush has done so much for our country so far. On September 11th, a terrible tragedy happened. Terrorists, known as Al Queda from Afghanistan, decided to crash our planes into...