Over the past several weeks, I have spent time in communities across the North Country in a series of community listening sessions. I want to begin by thanking everyone who took the time to attend, speak candidly, and share both concerns and hopes for the future of healthcare in our region.

His grandparents and mother were born in Selma, Ala., the site of the violence of the 1965 civil rights march that led to the Voting Rights Act. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio, where within 30 yards of his house six Black active-duty soldiers went off to Vietnam, including one of his childhood…

By Garry Rayno, Distant Dome

Spock who, as a Vulcan, is incapable of lying, returns by popular demand to address the statements delivered by an angry bearded man in a white pickup to the Northern Sanctuary Community’s vigil outside Saint Barnabas Church in Berlin on January 20th: “They’re all illegals!” he hollered as h…