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Honor your history while embracing your future

by Melissa Hale-Spencer



Take a stroll down Altamont’s Main Street and you will see beautifully preserved Victorian buildings.

Soaring on the wings of memories

by Melissa Hale-Spencer


Why do people save things" For many of us, the reasons are more sentimental than practical. We’re not like squirrels hoarding nuts before winter weather sets in. We have needs that are spiritual as well as physical.

Freeman A man who preserves democratic ideals

by Melissa Hale-Spencer



It’s Sunshine Week, meant to highlight the public’s access to government records and meetings. We believe that, for our democracy — a government of the people, by the people and for the people — to work well, its citizens must be fully and fairly informed.

Accepting a hug

by Melissa Hale-Spencer



In a 2002 review of Lansing’s Christmas book of poems, Stitching Stars, I wrote:

From the editor Lansing Christman journalist and poet was a man of true words

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

From the editor
Lansing Christman, journalist and poet, was a man of true words

Revisiting a year at the jumping-off point

by Melissa Hale-Spencer



Time and place are human constructs. They can intersect in powerful, defining ways.