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BRATTLEBORO â Amelia Shillingford grew up outside of Boston, but in her heart sheâs always been a Vermonter.
âVermont is about sense of purpose. Itâs about community and connection and nature and simplicity of life,â said Shillingford, who has lived in Vermont since 2011 and has worked at the Brattleboro Retreat since 2016. âIâve always been connected to Vermont and its values.â
Shillingford spent summers in Vermont, at Aloha Camp, a girls camp, in Fairlee, where she experienced all of those things.
âI was loved and valued, not for how smart I was, just for who I was,â she said.
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Around 5 p.m. on Dec. 20, Officer Matt Lima of the Somerset (Mass.) Police Department pulled up to a Stop & Shop for a report of shoplifting. An employee had seen women putting groceries in bags without scanning them various food items, including a ham, totaling about $220.
Lima spoke to the women, a mother whose two kids were with her and their aunt, he recalled in an interview. They admitted the theft, told him they knew it was wrong and had no prior records.
Getting emotional, the aunt “gestured towards the kids and said it was Christmas dinner,” Lima said.
Constance Paulina Duszkiewicz Murray passed after a long period of declining health at her beloved home in Keene in the early hours of Dec. 5, 2020. She had turned 93 five days earlier on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020.
Born in 1927 in Proctor, Vt., to a mother she adored, Leocadia Pifko Duszkiewicz, and her father, Branislaw Alexandr Duszkiewicz, Connie was raised in the Polish enclave of West Rutland, Vt. Connie lived with her family on Marble Street and walked to St. Stanislaus Elementary School. At West Rutland High School (Class of 1945), she was an active member of several clubs, including serving as president of the DAR. She was very proud of being named the high schoolâs âDAR Girlâ by her classmates and faculty. After graduation from Becker College in Worcester, Mass., in 1947 with an A.S. in healthcare, Connie reunited with high school and college friends to work in Keene at Eliot Community Hospital. She was proud to work for many years for radiologist Dr. Albert C. J
Jake Seaburg, 23-year-old from Acton who was fatally stabbed in New Hampshire, ‘would be there in a heartbeat’ to help family
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Days after a 23-year-old Acton man was fatally stabbed in New Hampshire over the weekend, his family remembered him as a person who would give the shirt off his back for someone.
Jake Seaburg’s sister, Nicole Letourneau, told the Keene Sentinel that her brother was strong, tough, but also caring.
Seaburg was stabbed Saturday during an incident that occurred at a residence on Peterborough Street in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, officials said. Authorities said Seaburg had been stabbed in the chest and ruled his death a homicide.