GUILFORD — Above Sweet Pond
a great blue heron hovers
over a brown trout:
* * *
In Sweet Pond
frogs hide
from a winged shadow.
* * *
Beside Sweet Pond
mushrooms push
from earth after rain.
* * *
On Sweet Pond
dragonflies wheel
through my daydreams.
* * *
Without Sweet Pond
where will the sky
see its face
as water thins
to a ribbon?
Representative Town Meeting members will vote on proposed changes to the Town Charter at a Special Town Meeting on Saturday, Jan. 22, at Academy School on Western Avenue, starting at 8:30 a.m. The meeting is the culmination of three years of study and meetings by the town Charter Review Commission. Some of the proposed changes include lowering the percentage of signatures needed to put forth a binding initiative on a town ballot from 20 percent down to 10 percent; expanding...
Cara Cheyette lives in Halifax, where, "as much at home as I felt in Cambridge, I've never felt more gratefully rooted than I do here, now," she says. HALIFAX-I fled a suburb of Boston in 1979, midway through senior year, and headed directly to Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For the first time in my life, I felt like I was home. I lived or worked near the Square for the next 30 years, and I raised my daughter there,
The Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center will present Samirah Evans and Her Handsome Devils in concert on Thursday, Oct. 14, at 7 p.m. Evans formed the group in 2009 to support the release of her second solo album, My Little Bodhisattva. The sextet's musical virtuosity and ability to blend jazz, soul, funk, and blues helped them establish a loyal following as they performed at clubs, concert halls, and festivals throughout New England. While various members of the original band...
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