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...
With Town Clerk Denise Germon's resignation at midnight on March 6, it was up to the town's Board of Civil Authority to appoint someone hours later to preside over Town Meeting. The BCA, which consists of the town's justices of the peace, the Selectboard, and the town agent, met in the Fifth Grade room at the Putney Central School at 9 a.m. on March 6 - an hour before Town Meeting was called to order. Under statute, it is the...
The Rockingham Free Public Library presents Media Educator Ben Boyington, a contributor to The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People on Saturday, Feb. 11, at 1 p.m. During the recent presidential election, media literacy became a phrase that signified the threat media manipulation posed to democratic processes, states a news release. Meanwhile, statistical research has shown that 8- to 18-year-olds pack more than 11 hours with some form of media into each day by...
Yes, I am aware that Rosa Parks was not the first Black person to refuse to give up her seat on the Montgomery bus. Claudette Colvin was 15 and pregnant, and a conscious decision was made by the folks planning the bus boycott to have Rosa Parks be the one, as they felt that she, rather than Claudette, would garner greater sympathetic news coverage. I feel bad for Claudette, as she was really the first one who I know of...
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