The Bellows Falls-based Greater Falls Prevention Coalition (GFPC) recently received $107,750 from the Vermont Department of Health, part of $1.5 million of federal and state coalition grants presented to organizations working to reduce retail tobacco advertising, improve nutrition and physical activity for young Vermonters, and address alcohol and drug abuse. Chad Simmons, former interim director and currently media coordinator of the GFPC, said the grant represents a change in how the agency addresses prevention. He described it as a “multifaceted...
Sometimes in the mirror - especially first thing in the morning, clear-eyed - I see my father's face. It can be a flash of an expression, the look around the eyes, the shape of the mouth or cheek, a twisting of the lips. There he is. It's not a pleasant experience, looking in the mirror. The punch-in-the-gut feeling starts low and deep and ends up almost strangling me in its violence. At one point, the mixture of disgust and despair...
On Friday, Sept. 22, at 8 p.m., the downtown nonprofit arts center Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St., presents Ben Model performing a live musical score on the historic Estey organ to the silent film The Man Who Laughs. Model is an organist who regularly performs musical accompaniment to silent films at MOMA and the Library of Congress. He is one of the top 20 most-celebrated silent film accompanists in the United States, and Epsilon Spires organizers say they are "honored...
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