PUTNEY — I am so grateful for this commentary, which names the unreasonable, but terribly powerful, fear - of a tyrannical government actually disarming citizens - behind so many opponents of gun-safety laws.
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Bellows Falls Union High School has been selected to be part of the VT MakerSchools, a three-year initiative to support selected schools across the state to develop, implement, and sustain makerspace programs. As defined by makerspaces.com, a makerspace is a "collaborative work space inside a school, library or separate public/private facility for making, learning, exploring and sharing that uses high-tech to no-tech tools. These spaces are open to kids, adults, and entrepreneurs and have a variety of maker equipment including...
Gallery in the Woods, 145 Main St., will host an ongoing exhibit of linocut and woodblock prints by William H. Hays. His work will be featured during the month of June, with an opening reception on Friday, June 2, from 5 to 8 p.m., during Gallery Walk. Hays has been an artist since 1971 when he began working in watercolors and in oils, notes a news release. He was a painter throughout his life until his late wife bought him...
When I was 10 years old - the same age as two of my three children - my mother left me at home alone with my father, who had repeatedly proven that he was a menace to his own children. Probably upset by my mother's momentary freedom, my father quickly trapped me in a meaningless conflict, and in response to my attempt to get away from him, he grabbed me by the throat and lifted me off the floor, pinning...
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