“I don't want to go,” Yi-Soon Kim said, when asked about her decision to sell the business - the Shin La Restaurant - that she and her husband, Tae-Mo Kim, have owned on Main Street for almost 35 years. “It's very hard,” Mrs. Kim said. “The customers are very graceful, they are so nice to me. They're like friends and family.” But Mrs. Kim is nearing age 65, and she said she “wants to prepare while I'm still healthy.” She...
Elayne Clift (elayne-clift.com) has written this column about women, politics, and social issues from the earliest days of this newspaper. Remember the outcry when we realized that prior Republican administrations, national and state, cared about children but only from conception to birth? It's looking like déjà vu all over again with millions of children in this wealthy country going hungry. As The New York Times noted in a January article, more than eight million kids in 13 states are about...
The Board of Directors of Theatre Adventure, Inc. recently announces that the nonprofit has been awarded four grants to support its online programming for 2021. These grants have been received from the Puffin Foundation, Windham Foundation, Brattleboro Town Arts Fund, and the Vermont Community Foundation's Crosby-Gannett Fund. The Puffin Foundation has awarded Theatre Adventure a grant to support the Peer Mentor Leadership Project in an online format. Funds will be used for an assistant teacher who has developmental challenges, to...
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