Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
CoverageCo submitted a preliminary plan on June 30 for restoring and expanding its rural cell/e911 service, nearly all of which is currently shut down. It could remain shut down unless Consolidated Communications, the state's largest telecom, either comes back on board or a different telecommunications solution presents itself. The Vermont Department of Public Service will consider the plan and either move forward with CoverageCo or issue a Request for Proposal to consider any bidder for the rural cell service. “We...
From the cracks of our culture, the Ku Klux Klan and Nazis have risen again in a fury of hatred and violence. On Aug. 28, 1955, a black 14-year-old from Chicago, Emmett Till, was tortured and murdered by two Mississippi Klan members. The nation took notice. The arc of the moral universe is long. While visiting his uncle in Money, Miss., Till had apparently offended the protocols of the “Southern way of life” so proscribed by the Jim Crow caste...
The Rock River Players present Nickel and Dimed, a play by Joan Holden, based on Barbara Ehrenreich's book Nickel and Dimed: on (Not) Getting By in America. Performances are Aug. 1-4 and will be at the Williamsville Hall on Dover Road. Ehrenreich's memoir chronicles her journey across America as she tries to live on minimum wage. In the play, the author, played by Vicky Santiesteban, weaves in and out of the lives of her co-workers, who labor to fulfill job...
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