LINDA HECKER is professor emerita at Landmark College, where she spent 32 years of her 50-year teaching career.
GUILFORD-It's been three years since a Voices essay in this paper turned my life upside down and made me an outcast in our community. Follow-up articles in the local press amplified my disgrace by quoting false allegations about me without attempting to verify them.
I hoped that those who knew me would rise to my defense, but the few who spoke out have been similarly tarred and ostracized as "friends of...."...
Even if you're not able to attend Town Meeting on Tuesday, March 5, it's important for Guilford residents to vote by Australian ballot on the Flood and Fluvial Erosion Hazard ordinance. Absentee ballots are available from the Town Clerk. A no vote lets the ordinance stand as enacted by...
On the face of it, it sounds like a reasonable idea to build a concrete barrier along Whetstone Brook to protect the buildings of Melrose Terrace. It would be wonderful to preserve those apartments for future residents, if we could do so safely and economically. However, the lessons of...
Joyce Marcel's column, “The death of Rose Kagan” [Voices, Jan. 4], is beautifully written and moving. It speaks strongly to those of us who are seeing aging parents through illness and death. It's a dose of reality, too - the reality of hospitals, even when they are trying hard to do the right thing, and the reality of death when it is not prettified.