HALIFAX — I don't like the tactics of 17-year-old Rio Daims, who kept heifers waiting on hot pavement during last weekend's parade “die-in.”
But what is her father, who isn't quoted and whose decade-old activism is unrelated, doing in your story?
Sometime last century, newspapers started covering women in the news without mentioning their husbands.
Will today's child activists get that much respect?
Jonathan Elwell organizes with Vermont Just Justice, an organization whose mission is "to promote the...
Elizabeth Bridgewater is executive director of the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust. BRATTLEBORO-Every April, communities...
Libby Bennett and Rita Ramirez submitted this piece on behalf of Groundworks Collaborative, where they...
Elayne Clift (elayne-clift.com) has written this column about women, politics, and social issues from the...
The new 5-megawatt net-metered solar project on the town's former landfill at the Windham Solid Waste Management District's Old Ferry Road facility is slowly going online. The project is slightly behind schedule. According to the project's Certificate of Public Good, the solar array had to get hooked up to the grid by June 30. “It is not on schedule,” said the District's Executive Director Bob Spencer. “They tried to plug it in [to the grid] last week, but some of...
We, the Wilmington Old Home Week Committee, are continuing to plan the event scheduled for July 30 through Aug. 2. We know that it is possible that we might have to cancel or postpone the wonderful celebration, but we will not make that final decision until early June. At that point, we hope to know more so that we can determine whether it will be safe to come together for this tradition, held every 10 years since 1890. The Committee...
On Monday, April 19, the downtown arts organization Epsilon Spires will begin screening the film The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD as part of its Virtual Cinema series. April 19 is known amongst psychedelic enthusiasts as “Bicycle Day,” in honor of the first time that Albert Hofmann, then a young chemist at a Swiss pharmaceutical company, ingested a dose of a new compound he had discovered while studying ergot, a fungus that occurs on rye: Lysergic acid diethylamide, also known as...
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