Students do not want a school resource officer (SRO) at Brattleboro Union High School, a student-led survey team reports, saying that having one caused them to make “a prison analogy.” Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) board members heard the report of students' feelings and recommendations at their April 12 meeting, where emotion ran the gamut. At least 75 people attended the meeting via Zoom, with a dozen or so more in the room in person. WSESD Diversity Coordinator Mikaela Simms,
This proposal to overhaul the SNAP program, like so many recently, is terrifying. Of course, even if the infrastructure costs of pulling off such a feat would massively cut into the benefits that families actually receive, providing that box of canned and processed food would be a nice fat deal for a few corporate buddies of the administration. I have been on food stamps for many years. Even before I had children, I qualified financially to receive them - even...
Sheryl Steiger Young's animal etchings are featured during the month of May at Gallery in the Woods, 145 Main St., with an opening during Gallery Walk on Friday, May 6, from 5 to 8 p.m. Fine line drawing and attention to minute detail characterize Young's art work. Her etchings take the observer where neither beast, tree, nor landscape is what it appears to be, but rather a precious spirit or place where hidden images, both real and imagined, merge. Young...
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