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An obituary to note: Children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, 83, best known for his book
Where the Wild Things Are
, of complications from a recent stroke:

Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten, Mr. Sendak’s books were essential ingredients of childhood for the generation born after 1960 or thereabouts, and in turn for their children. He was known in particular for more than a dozen picture books he wrote and illustrated himself, most famously “Where the Wild Things Are,” which was simultaneously genre-breaking and career-making when it was published by Harper & Row in 1963.

Among the other titles he wrote and illustrated, all from Harper & Row, are “In the Night Kitchen” (1970) and “Outside Over There” (1981), which together with “Where the Wild Things Are” form a trilogy; “The Sign on Rosie’s Door” (1960); “Higglety Pigglety Pop!” (1967); and “The Nutshell Library” (1962), a boxed set of four tiny volumes comprising “Alligators All Around,” “Chicken Soup With Rice,” “One Was Johnny” and “Pierre.”

Actually try baby boomers born in the mid-fifties onward. His book became a big hit when I was in the second or third grade.

Not that it matters, but Sendak was gay and had lived with somebody for some 50 years, but he never told his parents.
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Eagle Point, Oregon, school district teachers are going on strike today.

Substitutes are allegedly being threatened if they honor the picket line. This is unacceptable.
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According to a former WCSD official, he doesn't believe a new sup of that district will be chosen for quite some time and that an interim will be put in place when Morrison moves on to greener pastures.
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Another obituary to note: The death of Senator Richard Lugar's career, by mercy killing, tonight.