Priscilla Morrill

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I recently returned from vacation and happened to be walking by the Sharon Arts Center Downtown Galleries’ window. I was arrested by what I saw. Was it a person? No, two people. A pair of shoes. One glance was not enough; it was too much to take in and just enough to wake me.

Stories from ‘Along the Silk Road’

With mixed emotions, Alison Meltzer explained the origins of the Afghan garments she loaned the Mariposa Museum for its “Along the Silk Road” exhibit. In an interview earlier this month, she described how the traditional clothing had brought to mind the exchange student who, instead of returning home to Afghanistan, vanished last spring in a bid for residency in Canada.

Art from the depths

Squid. Supernal. Order I. Tshilubha. Tuatara. These are the words Lyndeborough printer and sculptor Aaron Brown picked from a dictionary for the titles of his shape-centered works of art.

Budget easily approved

JAFFREY — Voters approved $7,989,550 in spending, including $7,848,550 in total operating expenses and $141,000 to replace a bridge on Gilmore Pond Road, at a Special Town Meeting on Thursday night.

Jaffrey: Voters OK $7.84 million budget

May 20th 2011 at 10:29:46 AM

Friday, May 20, 2011

JAFFREY – Voters approved $7,989,550 in spending, including $7,848,550 in total operating expenses and $141,000 to replace a bridge on Gilmore Pond Road, at a Special Town Meeting Thursday night.

Voters rejected an effort to amend the $7,848,550 proposed budget to $7,811,679, a $36,871 reduction. Voters also defeated a warrant article calling for $27,000 to buy a new police cruiser.

More on this story in Tuesday’s issue.

CIRCUS TOUR HITS HOME

Each at the tender age of 15, Emma Rogers and Bekk McGowan are partners in circus acrobatics and in a circle of trust, which they are taking on the road this summer with the Circus Smirkus tour, an international traveling youth troupe based in Vermont.

A vision for the sound

He’s traveled the globe working in international banking, run Opera Boston for more than a decade and even coordinated a show in Boston that closed with The Dresden Dolls’ Amanda Palmer.