RE: “Written in stone” [Editorial, May 30]:
I served with Bill Bassignani in Vietnam. Thank you for reminding people of the tremendous sacrifices made by the men and women in uniform, especially those in combat zones.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Christina Moore's resume doesn't lack for variety: She's spent time on a research boat in Alaska, worked on communications networks in Iraq, and assisted with Hurricane Sandy recovery in New York. But there are two common threads - technological expertise and emergency response - that run through the Halifax resident's life and career. The devastating floods of Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 led Moore to form Storm Petrel LLC, which has woven those two threads into a new software package...
Two longtime residents, Tom Ragle and Don McLean, will collaborate on a public reading of Sonnets on Wednesday, May 13. The 7 p.m. program will take place at Guilford Community Church, and is admission-free with donations welcome. Sharing a belief that poetry, which originated as an oral tradition, should be liberated from the page and read aloud, McLean and Ragle decided to help revive the practice of public recitation of the works of both classic and less-known poets. Both readers...
It seems unlikely that a public library could become a battleground for justice - unless it's about banned books or visits from Homeland Security - but this ongoing painful drama at Rockingham Free Public Library has reached a crucial point. Last week, a majority of five trustees voted to fire an excellent director. Their refusal to allow the director to respond to the full board to allegations about her job performance made in their corrective action plan is insulting and...
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