Cassandra Holloway works for a nonprofit that focuses on substance misuse prevention and youth empowerment. Gavin...
WESTMINSTER WEST-The United States is in a different place from where it was seven months...
GUILFORD-I want to commend Steev Lynn for correcting the historical record in response to Tristan...
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Saxtons River Trustees finally got to the table in August for wastewater treatment talks that began last year. They met with representatives from the Bellows Falls Trustees, as well as interim Town Manager Francis “Dutch” Walsh, to discuss their counter proposal for a possible wastewater connection pipe from the Saxtons River pump station to the Bellows Falls wastewater facility. The delay was a matter of overcoming conflicting schedules. Saxtons River Trustees Chair Louise Luring explained, “The reason we are talking...
Author Ann Braden shares her experiences and steps leading up to writing The Flight of the Puffin. Braden, who wrote The Benefits of Being an Octopus, said that with the new young adult novel, she set out to use her 11 years of writing to promote kindness, lessons, and hard topics for an audience of a younger age group. This book tells the journey of the protagonist, Libby, and how her past with bullies and hardships evolves into her spreading...
When I was 7 years old, my sweet, funny, smart cousin Madeline, just my age, got the measles. We were all getting the measles back in those days, like we got the German measles, also known as rubella (a milder form of regular measles), chicken pox, and the mumps. Spotty, itchy, and miserable, most of us got better in a week or so and then had the antibodies inside us so we'd never get them again. Good thing. The measles...
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