The day after a brush fire scorched most of her property, landowner Siiri Lane took a few minutes to speak after a long day and night. “How amazing all these firefighters are,” she said Tuesday from her home on Ginseng Hill. “I get teary about it." Lane called emergency services Monday to report the fire. “I looked out the window, and it looked wrong,” she said of the landscape. Lane owns some of the property that burned; the rest is...
My enthusiasm for Sara Coffey has been boosted by the Nancy Gassett campaign's weekly mailings of plastic-coated alarmist broadsides filled with distortions of Sara's good works and misinterpretations of responsible legislation. I'm surprised at how far these absurdities go - especially the pretend “liberal” broadside opposing Article 22 on the grounds that it would somehow enable “mostly straight, white teachers” to dictate the reproductive rights of “15-year-old” members of “the BIPOC community.” Based on this cynically disguised, divisive rhetoric, voters...
Twilight Music begins its 17th annual Twilight On The Tavern Lawn series of folk, world beat, zydeco, Celtic, jazz, blues, and bluegrass summer concerts on Sunday, June 2, with an evening of hard driving, house rocking, in your face blues by The Chris Kleeman Band. The seven-concert series continues every other Sunday through Aug. 25. All concerts begin at 6 p.m. in downtown Putney on the Putney Tavern lawn (bring a lawn chair or blanket) or at Next Stage at...
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