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Wilda L. White, Hilary Melton, and Malaika Puffer are founding directors of MadFreedom Advocates, Inc.,
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The day after a brush fire scorched most of her property, landowner Siiri Lane took a few minutes to speak after a long day and night. “How amazing all these firefighters are,” she said Tuesday from her home on Ginseng Hill. “I get teary about it." Lane called emergency services Monday to report the fire. “I looked out the window, and it looked wrong,” she said of the landscape. Lane owns some of the property that burned; the rest is...
The Vermont Jazz Center will present Eugene Uman's Convergence Project on June 11 at 8 p.m. The Convergence Project is Uman's vehicle to present his original compositions as well as music that has influenced him. The Project includes Michael Zsoldos, saxophones; Jeff Galindo, trombone; Uman, piano; David Picchi, bass (electric and acoustic); and Jon Fisher on drums. There will also be surprise musical guests performing at this event, according to a news release. After spending several years in Colombia, Uman...
At midnight on Jan. 1, 1971, it became illegal under federal law for U.S. TV stations to air cigarette ads. At the time, roughly 38% of adults smoked, down from a high of 45% in 1954. While it took until 2018 for most states to ban public smoking, there was a significant and steady decrease in smoking over those four decades. Along the way was the 1964 Surgeon General's report on smoking and lung cancer, and in the 1990s came...
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