As Spain’s politicians fret about how the high temperatures might affect turnout in a general election this month, animals in Madrid’s Zoo were being treated this week to frozen food to cool off amid the sweltering heat. The United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization on Monday said global temperatures recorded in early July were among the hottest on record. This tops a previous record from July 1964 when the thermometer reached 27.6 degrees Celsius (81.7 degrees F). In the Arctic, a record high temperature of 28.8 degrees Celsius (83.8 degrees F) was measured at Slettness Fyr on the northern tip of the Norway, Norwegian meteorologists said Thursday. The Fitchburg Art Museum will collect and exhibit the front pages as they come out, and you can see them here in a slideshow that will be updated daily.“Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Poland are all facing a major heat wave, with temperatures expected to climb to 48 degrees Celsius on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia – potentially the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Europe” the agency said Thursday. The Sentinel & Enterprise prints approximately 14,000 copies of the paper on weekdays. 'Before Fitchburg fell off the grid, people came from all over the world to live here.' 'It’s really an American project, about an American city with an American industrial past,' she said. Around Amsterdam artist Felix Salut’s A are 'Ancestry,' an essay by esteemed journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, who grew up in nearby Leominster, about the factory town’s history and immigrants 'Ajar,' a poem by Andrea Cohen, who directs the Writers House at Merrimack College and whose work has been widely published and 'Airship,' about the paper’s 1909 report on the sighting of an unusual object in the sky, by Fitchburg State University student Anna Farwell. Schuleit Haber hopes to balance the visuals with storytelling new and old. 'For him to have said yes is kind of a miracle because the whole project could have stopped at his desk when I presented this,' she said. Then she embedded herself in the Sentinel & Enterprise newsroom to oversee the endeavor, with the blessing of editor Charles St. Schuleit Haber, who was born in Germany and who usually works by herself in her New Orleans studio, recruited 26 typographers from around the world and a team of students and volunteers. 'What we’re really marking here is the end of one era and the beginning of the next.' 'Print media is on its way out,' said Schuleit Haber, a MacArthur Foundation fellow who the Fitchburg Art Museum commissioned to carry out this third leg of its National Endowment for the Arts grant. Only those putting together the Sentinel & Enterprise’s public art project, 'The Alphabet,' know, and they’re out to surprise their readers-'make them wonder, what the hell is going on with the paper?' said visual artist Anna Schuleit Haber, who’s steering it all the way to Z. Tomorrow, B could be big or small, legible or hardly so. Today, it’s a minimalist red A that fills the space above the fold like a house. UPDATE: Follow 'The Alphabet' as it unfolds, A to Z, through the slideshow above.įor the next 26 days, one letter will leap out on the front page of Fitchburg’s daily newspaper.

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