Developing that passion for reading is crucial, according to Jim Trelease, author of the best-seller, The Read-Aloud Handbook.. Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain, he writes in the Handbook.. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.. This reading commercial is critical when competition for a child's attention is so fierce.
Massachusetts has an unique unposted limit law. If a limit is not posted outside of a thickly settled area, you are not speeding unless you exceed 50 (divided highway) or 40 (undivided) for a quarter mile. In a thickly settled area other than a school zone, exceeding 30 for an eighth of a mile is speeding.
1 15 m.p.h. in a school zone at specific times of the day, 2  25 m.p.h. in a business or residential area or built up portion, unless otherwise posted. 3  45 m.p.h. on all other public ways, unless otherwise posted. 4  However, the noted 25 and 45 mph limits are usually unenforceable if they do not have MaineDot approval.