PUTNEY — Now more than ever, it is crucial for us to strengthen our local communities. Our local school - and our local involvement with and control over our school - forms the architecture that makes our town resilient and responsive in so many ways.
Please join me in voting no to the school merger (Act 46) on Town Meeting day.
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...
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WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
Former Ambassador Peter Galbraith has had a longstanding and close relationship with the Kurdish people in Syria and Iraq. So when President Donald J. Trump made the decision on Oct. 6 to withdraw U.S. forces from Kurdish-held northeast Syria and gave the OK to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan to invade, the Townshend resident took it personally. The title of Galbraith's annual talk to the Windham World Affairs Council, “The Betrayal of the Kurds,” which took place Nov. 9, left...
Recently, we returned from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and the protest there against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline is being constructed to carry crude oil from North Dakota southward to Illinois. It would run the oil underneath the Missouri and Cannonball rivers, the main water source for the tribe and millions of people south of this point. The protesters want to stop the pipeline for fear of future spillage destroying both the land and water. We want to...
Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts, a two-year-old gallery showcasing contemporary art in solo and group exhibitions, has expanded. The gallery founded and operated by Petria Mitchell and Jim Giddings has opened up an annex in the atrium of the Brooks House, according to a news release. Mitchell said this expansion will enhance MGFA's ability to increase exposure of its artists by offering rotating exhibitions in the new, spacious, and light-filled public venue. “We will continue in our established location,” Mitchell said in...
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