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That thing that happens when your child passes an entire summer without picking up a book has an actual name. The Bermuda National Library calls it the “summer slide” and recommends their reading challenge as the perfect antidote. Local children who ...

Dancer Rikkai Scott knew he had all the right moves for an audition in Amsterdam. Unfortunately, he did not have money to travel. The 25-year-old was just finishing up a dance degree at the London Contemporary Dance School in the UK. “Students genera...

Alonzo Richards used to wish he was invisible. “The other children kept making jokes about my size, which I didn’t like too much,” he said. “I was stocky.” He is now a muscular 18-year-old but he was able to tap into those childhood feelings to win t...

Malcolm Tottingham went waterskiing the last time he visited Bermuda. For an 85-year-old, that’s no small feat. His wife, Roberta, is just as fearless. “We rode mopeds up until two years ago,” said Mrs Tottingham, 85. “We rode on separate bikes, I fo...

Ginny Ferson’s knees were knocking. A busy ambassador had asked her to fill in for him at a meeting and it was only once she got there she discovered she had to make a speech. It was 1994 and she was second secretary at the Luxembourg British Embass...

Whenever Jane Simmons built up motivation to lose weight something would get in her way. She had an underactive thyroid and suffered from coeliac disease, which limited the foods she could eat. In 2013 she injured herself in a nasty fall, which sto...

Carolyn Armstrong walks with a brace. Unless you know her well, it’s the only obvious sign that anything’s wrong. She’s lively, has a sense of humour and radiates good health. She also has multiple sclerosis. The disease usually strikes people betwe...

Alyssa Rose was 15 when she took home the title of Miss Teen Bermuda in 2008. These days she’s in the running for an even more desirable sash and crown. The 22-year-old is one of six young women set to compete in the Miss Bermuda Pageant on July 5. ...

Dear Heather: I have verbally accepted an offer on my house, so it’s finally sold right? — Enthusiastic Dear Enthusiastic: Great news on receiving an offer at a price point you think you can work with; however you still have a long way to go before y...

The bank officer had never handled a loan for a salad bowl before. Historian John Cox was insistent that he had to have it. “It was an 18th-century English salad bowl,” he said. “It cost me $3,500 and it took me a year to pay off. That was 1987. It w...