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BRATTLEBORO-On the second Saturday in May — May 9 this year — letter carriers and rural letter carriers throughout the region will be “carrying out” the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, an annual one-day food drive with nationwide scope and local impact.
We ask all who are able to join us in participating. Simply leave a bag of nonperishable food items by your mailbox or drop it at your post office. Healthy and high-protein donations are encouraged. No glass containers, please.
Our partners — Vermont Foodbank, Putney Food Shelf, Bread of Life Food Shelf in Vernon, and others — will distribute your donations to those in need.
Checks made out to Vermont Foodbank will also be accepted.
The writer is the local organizer of NALC Branch 37. BRATTLEBORO-On Sunday, March 23, a Protect USPS from Privatization Rally will take place at 3 p.m. at the Brattleboro Main Post Office, 204 Main St., hosted by Branch 37 of the National Association of Letter Carriers, in coordination with...
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The Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive was a huge success this year in Brattleboro, Guilford, Vernon, Dummerston, Putney, and beyond. Postal customers donated over 8,000 pounds of food in our region, a 70-percent increase over last year! Members of the National Association of Letter Carriers hold this national drive each year on the second Saturday in May, and the collected non-perishables stay local to each participating community across the United States. Our sharp increase in donations was in no small...
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Eight years ago, I stood on the National Mall, wrapped in the arms of my biracial same-sex lover, to experience the Inauguration ceremony of Barack Obama, a man whose campaign slogan had been, simply, “Hope.” And, indeed, we were full of hope on that day, in that season. When the program ended, we made our way to the far end of the Reflecting Pool and up into the Lincoln Memorial to read the full text of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural...
