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Issue #60 Community Vine

Newsletter Introduction: Issue #60, The final Vine issue

This being the final issue of the Vine, I’m having a hard time writing the newsletter introduction, but not for the reason I thought. I just have so many things I want to cover, so rather than try to integrate ten random thoughts into one nicely flowing story, I’m just going to bullet point them all.

Although this is the final issue of the Vine newsletter, we will still use our Community Vine Facebook page to share news and information with people. If you are promoting a non-profit event, or have community news to share with people in Westminster or Ashburnham, feel free to post it on the Community Vine Facebook page. We have 2,500 Vine subscribers yet only...Read More >>

town hall

Intro to Town Hall section of Issue #60 Our Town Hall section includes stories about the Board of Selectmen and Ashburnham Westminster School Committee as well as Town Hall type of announcements and answers to questions asked about various town boards and departments. We also publish press releases from our state and local representatives. In addition, you will find finance stories, written by a very successful investor we know, under the pen name Joe C. (for Conservative) Daytrader. If there is something in town government that you'd like to know more about, please email us at info@communityvine.net....Read More >>

Latest Town Hall, Schools and Finance stories

features

Intro to Features section of Issue #60 Our Features section includes stories written by our group of dedicated volunteer writers. This section includes some regular features such as Restaurant Rover reviews and Profiles of the Past, a series of local history stories, republished with permission. Our top advertising packages include full length comprehensive feature stories, so you will see business stories mixed in, too. We also include many human interest stories and interesting items submitted by readers. If you'd like to be a regular or occasional writer, just send an email to info@communityvine.net...Read More >>

Latest Feature stories

lifestyle

Intro to Lifestyle section of Issue #60 Our Lifestyle section includes some regular stories such as What Is That?, Travel, Recipes by Chef Heidi Couture, Pet Health and Movie Reviews. If you'd like to share your area of expertise with our readers, please send any series ideas to us at info@communityvine.net. This section is always full of church, school, library and fundraising events in Westminster and surrounding towns. Click here for submission guidelines or visit our Community Calendar for information about upcoming events....Read More >>

Latest Lifestyle Stories

Letters and Editorials and Police and fire Logs
	Intro to Letters and Editorials section of Issue #60 Our Opinion section includes Editorials, Letters to the Editor, LOFT (List of Free Things) and items for sale. Also in this section are regular features like real estate bought and sold in Ashburnham and Westminster as well as the ever popular Police and Fire Logs....Read More >>

Latest Opinions, Letters, Police and Fire Logs

obituaries
	We publish obituaries as we receive them. Although they will not appear in the Vine newsletter until the next issue is published, obituaries are published on the Vine website on the same day we receive them....Read More >>

Latest Obituaries

Latest Stories

This day in history...

Mount Saint Helens Erupts (1980)
Beginning in mid-March 1980, a series of earth tremors and steam explosions at Washington's Mount Saint Helens suggested that the volcano—dormant since 1857—was on the verge of erupting. Then, on May 18, the entire north side of the mountain exploded in a cloud of ash, rock, and fiery gases that collapsed a good part of it and carried debris for many miles. About 60 people were killed, and millions of tons of ash blanketed much of the American northwest. How far did the ash eventually spread? Discuss
Muhammad Ali Becomes of Egypt (1805)
Four years after Ali, an Ottoman army commander, helped drive Napoleon from Ottoman-ruled Egypt, he was named wali—governor—of Egypt. He helped modernize Egypt and attempted to secure its independence. Though unsuccessful, his efforts established his progeny as the rulers of Egypt and Sudan for nearly 150 years and rendered Egypt a de facto independent state. He is thus considered one of the fathers of modern Egypt. How did Ali trick Egypt's Mameluke leaders into walking into a massacre?
Junko Tabei Becomes First Woman to Summit Mount Everest (1975)
Tabei founded a climbing club for women in Japan in 1969 and, by 1972, was a recognized mountain climber. When Japanese newspaper and television companies sponsored an all-female expedition to climb Mount Everest, Tabei was one of the 15 women selected to go. In 1975, after months of training and preparation, the 35-year-old mother of two became the first woman to reach Everest's 29,035-foot (8,850-m) summit. What disaster partway up the slope nearly ended the climb?

Word of the day

Word of the Day

infest
Definition: (verb) To inhabit or overrun in numbers or quantities large enough to be harmful, threatening, or obnoxious.
Synonyms: overrun.
Usage: During the year that followed, Clayton was several times attacked by the great apes which now seemed to continually infest the vicinity of the cabin.
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