BRATTLEBORO — Mindy Haskins Rogers' piece is impeccable journalism, brilliantly written.
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...
Connecting kids and bicycles is part of a new educational initiative at Leland & Gray Union High School. Nine students in grades 9 through 11 are enrolled in Project Bike Tech (PBT) and Bike Tech in School, a bicycle education program similar to auto shop, but for bicycles. "I'm over the moon," says lead teacher Kevin Burke, who is also the school's snowboard coach and a lifelong biking enthusiast. "I'm super excited." He says "it's just really exciting to be...
The Windham-Windsor Housing Trust has helped a lot of people in need of affordable housing. Our economy and lifestyles make it so that many people cannot afford the basic necessities of survival even when they are working more than 40 hours a week at minimum wage. In my opinion, this situation is only getting worse. There are also those who simply cannot work and those who have worked their entire lives and need time, deserve time, to not be working.
The work of Putney writer Toni Ortner appears in the current issue of Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability through Literature and the Fine Arts. Ortner's poem, “Weather of the Heart,” appears in issue 83, “Global Perspectives.” The work was selected from more than 400 submissions. A college teacher of English and a writer who has had 26 books published by small presses, her books include Daybook I Deerbrook Editions (2019) and Giving Myself Over to J.S. Bach (2018). “I...
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