A great project, and one I am happy and honored to be involved in.
Derrik Jordan has found a new way to get visionary musicians' work seen and heard. He is a consummate host who always seems to ask the right questions.
Annie Landenberger is a freelance writer who contributes regularly to these pages. WILLIAMSVILLE-I marched with...
Michael Knapp is a software developer and entrepreneur who is passionate about social justice. GUILFORD-As...
Green Mountain Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (GMRSVP) would like to thank the voters of...
BELLOWS FALLS-Greater Falls Connections (GFC), a substance misuse prevention coalition located in Bellows Falls, thanks...
After 14 years, Windham County Humane Society (WCHS) Executive Director Annie Guion is leaving at the end of the year as the shelter prepares for a future that includes constructing an addition to the existing facility. Calling her work here “the best of my life and my most fun and fulfilling job to date,” Guion says it's time for her to “move on to the next adventure.” Noting her partner, Chuck Corman, is retiring and the couple is planning “to...
My high school in Miami was comprised of two-thirds white kids and a third black, with a few Hispanics. It was the late 1960s, the era of school busing, with plenty of racial tension, and a good bit of turbulence on the streets and in the schools. At such a time, our school was noteworthy for its almost total absence of overt hostility. We prided ourselves on the appearance of good will and respect among ourselves. Well ... we white...
“Walkin' The Talk” is a concert to benefit efforts to bring asylum seekers to Vermont from border detention centers. The event will be held on Saturday, March 30, at 7 p.m., at the The Putney Quaker Meeting House, 17 Bellows Falls Rd. According to a news release, Putney Quaker Meeting is working together with the Community Asylum Seekers Project to bring an individual or family seeking asylum, but currently being held for lack of a sponsor in a Texas detention...
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