BRATTLEBORO — Every day at the gym and the grocery store there are people without masks or wearing them pulled down.
My neighbors were away so their kids had a big party - no masks or distancing.
Please don't undo the safety our isolating has done.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
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-It was 91 years ago this week, on April 5, 1933, that President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as part of his New Deal, a program intended to get people back to work during the Great Depression. Anyone visiting state or national parks in the U.S. today still benefits from the work of the CCC. The program virtually created more than 700 state parks, and National Parks across the country benefited from CCC workers. When Roosevelt...
These are difficult days for the rule of democracy, openness, fairness, and just plain decency. Every day it seems the bar is lowered with no end in sight. This can make us feel powerless, at least at effecting positive change at the world or national level. Yet we have the important power in our hands to safeguard our values close to home, in our local communities, and that is where we can start. I truly hope we in Newfane will...
Now through March 4, Canal Street Art Gallery presents “Heroes & Villains,” an exhibit with artwork by Clare Adams, Thomasin Alyxander, Debi A. Barton, Jean Cannon, Mindy Fisher, Corinne Greenhalgh, Gregory Damien Grinnell, Yevette Hendler, Su Lin Mangan, Charles Norris-Brown, Gretchen Seifert, and Linda Udd. “The story of the hero and villain is told in many ways,” gallery organizers wrote in a news release. “Through art, music, performance, writing, and everyday life, the hero and villain come alive. The quest...
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