MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
The Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) Board of Directors has upheld its decision to fire former Brattleboro Union High School (BUHS) Principal Steven Perrin following a two-week hearing that ended Jan. 30. The hearing took place in executive session, with the results announced publicly at the board meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 28. “Pursuant to a hearing, the board has affirmed the decision to dismiss Mr. Perrin as BUHS principal,” WSESD board Chair Kelly Young said. She took no questions, and...
William Wordsworth is one of my literary heroes. Love the guy. Bet you didn't think you'd be reading that today, right? Wordsworth has been there for me whenever I've been pressed to frame a beautifully compelling or compellingly beautiful thought and my own words didn't seem up to the task (alas, too frequently). How often I've found my voice in the gorgeous poetry crafted by this man, whose very name says it all. Sort of like calling in a pinch...
When vocalist Evelyn Harris took the Arts Block stage last March, she expected to share it with Samirah Evans. After all, she was there at the invitation of the former New Orleans jazz and blues singer, who had been producing a “Ladies in Jazz” series at the Greenfield, Mass. concert hall for months. A sudden and extreme case of vertigo that morning left Evans unable to perform. Harris made the concert her own, earning three standing ovations from the packed...
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