One day in Cairo, perhaps in the late 1930s or 1940s, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company enticed shoppers to its storefront at 515 Main St. with a blowout 5-cent sale on soup, beans, and other provisions. In an undated, unsigned photograph, cans are piled in pyramids outside the front door, and a sign […]
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Support Grows for Poet Stripped of County Role Over Social Media Posts
Greene County will not have a poet laureate this year. On Wednesday evening, the Greene County Legislature voted unanimously, without discussion, to rescind the January appointment of writer Esther Cohen as the county’s first poet laureate. The vote formalized a decision outlined in an April 3 letter by Patrick Linger, chairman of the legislature, to […]
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Greene County Rescinds Poet Laureate Appointment Due to Facebook Posts
The chairman of the Greene County Legislature is revoking the appointment of Esther Cohen as the county’s first poet laureate, citing two of her Facebook posts that lawmakers said appeared to celebrate the prospect of President Donald Trump’s death. In an April 3 letter, Patrick Linger, chairman of the Republican-majority Legislature, told CREATE Council on […]
