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


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.



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.

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



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



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