The annual Representative Town Meeting zipped along - by local standards - on Saturday. Town Meeting members approved all but two of the 26 binding agenda items, including the municipal and school budgets as presented, along with other spending. They defeated, yet again, a proposal to enact a 1-percent local option sales tax as a new revenue stream. And members approved some crucial infrastructure repairs. Topping the list is the Green Street retaining wall, which is failing and threatening to...
As it has done for over a half-century, Friends of Music at Guilford opens its annual music season with a concert in a rural barn on Saturday night of Labor Day Weekend. The famed Organ Barn is in an idyllic setting near the state line where Guilford meets Leyden, Mass. The intimate Barn seats about 100 concertgoers, and on Sunday afternoon, 200 or more people flock to the lawn outside the Barn for picnics and an orchestra concert. At 7:30...
Rhonda Wainshilbaum is an artisan and a civic volunteer, living and working in Massachusetts, just over the Vermont line. The anti-Israel letter from Jewish Voice for Peace, published in The Commons recently, contained fallacies, omissions, and inaccuracies. Accusing Israel of genocide is a provocative indictment unsupported by facts. It diminishes real acts of genocide - such as those that occurred in the Holocaust and against Armenians and in Rwanda. Since their creation in 1948, Israelis have sought to live in...
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