RE: “What happens when a library loses its spirit?” [Column, Sept. 25]:
What a beautiful and resonant description of what we love about and get from libraries!
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The new Selectboard picked committee assignments at its first full meeting in the Municipal Center on April 2. “My goal in chairing these [Selectboard] meetings is to make sure everyone has an opportunity to speak fully,” said Selectboard chair David Gartenstein. Board duties call for members to serve on various town committees. Gartenstein will continue serving on the Traffic Safety Committee, which oversees parking issues, parking meters, traffic ordinances, and traffic safety. Newly elected members Kate O'Connor and David Schoales...
BELLOWS FALLS-Canal Street Art Gallery, 23 Canal St., presents a solo show by Whitney Barrett, on display through June 14. Barrett presents paper collages and mixed media paintings using line drawings of anamorphic figures along with hand-stamped papers, gel prints, tissue paper, found words, and pages from romance novels. These new artworks continue a series Barrett has explored for the past two decades, creating visual metaphors to express her main interest: communication. "The artist's love of fairy tales, wonder tales,
Now that the second Trump impeachment trial has ended in acquittal, it is clear that the Republican party has put the final nail in the coffin of democracy. The Democrats share a lot of the blame, but it is the Republicans who have made it clear that the pursuit of truth is no longer a guiding principle of the American form of government and that justice is an ideal that is not attainable. Politics has always been a dirty business,
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