SAXTONS RIVER — RE: “Former library director envisions lawsuit” [News, Sept. 25]:
It's about time someone revealed the truth. Thank you for your reporting on this very serious injustice.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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Kirsten Manville and Tim Foley will co-headline the Stage 33 Live listening room on 33 Bridge St., on Sunday, April 10, in a limited-seating 3 p.m. matinee. Singer/songwriter Kirsten Manville's latest album, Some People Sing, was a Metronome magazine top-five album pick, and she was subsequently featured on the cover. Her song, “...but Down,” was an Alternate Root magazine Top-10 selection. A blend of Americana, folk, country, and blues, her songs about finding and losing love, hard times, and small...
Like most writers, I am a tiny bit obsessed with music. Which is, admittedly, wholly unrelated to the fact that I cover Wall Street and noticed this week that more than 10 million Americans remain out of work, at least according to the latest blizzard of stunningly disappointing data from the U.S. Department of Labor. In the past, our tired, poor, and huddled masses of unemployed could at least take some solace in not-happy-to-be-unemployed noises (think Irving Berlin's “Slumming on...
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