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Under the Sea Costume Party will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Mendham Township Library (corner of Cherry Lane and East Main Street in Brookside). Go down under the sea to celebrate Summer Reading Club with ocean games, crafts, puppet show and tasty tidbits fit for mermaid, pirate or sea creature.

A Woodbury Dealer's Rarity

When the 18th-century portrait was hammered down at just over $1 million this past May 1 in Stamford, the successful bidder was Woodburys David Schorsch, and the auctioneer was Leigh Keno, well-known Manhattan antiques dealer and veteran of the Antiques Roadshow.

Sh-h-h-h-h? Forget it at South Sound libraries

Its a brilliantly sunny, rare gem of a day in the South Sound, but thats not enough to keep some three dozen teens from heading inside the downtown Tacoma Public Library.

Sh-h-h-h-h? Forget it

Zeb Coleman doesnt have a cell phone, computer or cable at home, yet hes no stranger to the virtual world.

Head of StatsCan resigns over census changes

The head of Statistics Canada has resigned after a controversial decision by the Conservatives to scrap the long-form census, saying a voluntary survey cannot become a substitute for a mandatory one.