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Published: 1/12/2021 11:18:45 AM
Multiple towns have announced their vacancies on elected boards in advance of the filing period for 2021 town elections.
In Temple, the Select Board has a vacancy for one three-year seat. Trustees of the trust funds have one vacant three-year seat. Cemetery trustees have one vacant three-year seat, library trustees have two vacant three-year seats, the Planning Board has two vacant three-year seats and one two-year seat, the single three-year seat for the ConVal School Board is up for election, and there is one three-year position open for fire engineer.
In Francestown, the two-year Town Moderator position is up for renewal, with Kevin Pobst in the incumbent position. Incumbent Select Board member Brad Howell’s three-year term is up for a vote, and there are two three-year openings on the Planning Board, with members Karen Fitzgerald and Linda Kunhardt’s terms up for renewal. There’s one three-year opening with the Trustees of Trust Funds wit
That card would set in motion a chain of events that led Stepney a lifelong musician who released music under the monikers Dollface and Chyna Doll for decades to pen and record a new track by summer’s end called “Shameika Said,” featuring former schoolmate and art-pop legend, Fiona Apple, all because of words she’d shared when they were kids. Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
Coincidentally, Stepney said she’d been dreaming about her old school, but not because of what caused Kunhardt to reach out.
Of Shameika, Apple told Vulture: Shameika is real. When I first wrote the song, I was not entirely convinced she existed. Because I have this one memory and it s a very big memory for me. But maybe I created this person. My third-grade teacher, Linda Kunhardt, was my favorite teacher. I ve kept in touch with her over the years. She read the New Yorker article, and the next day, she sent me an email saying, I heard you wrote about Shameika. I can see her … She sent me a picture of her.
Apple s song is quintessential Fiona a dizzying and punchy piano melody that makes the uneasiness of dodging bullies palpable. Raucous and racing like the heartbeat of a bullied child.