(Equal Eyes Records, digital) The strength of a local music scene isn t just about quality. Stylistic diversity is equally important. By that measure, Vermont is doing great. In the past year, we ve seen the spaced-out future funk of Real Ova Deceit and the ambitious psychedelia of Northeast Kingdom rap crew Tiger Fire Company No. 1. The latest out-there addition is a duo called Idiolect, whose debut,
Subterfuge, is a broadcast from another universe. Rapper/producer AgentElsewhere and rapper K Now are Burlington based these days, but they grew up together in Fair Haven. Their natural chemistry enhances every track on the LP, and it s clear the two love working together. They re also happy to embrace exactly who they are straight out the boondocks with a boom box.
Ronald Keith Fenton
Ronald Keith Fenton passed away on April 18, 2021, at the age of 71, after a brief fight with aggressive cancer. He was the son of William Alvin Fenton and Helen (née O’Dell) Fenton Barger, who preceded him in death. He was born on Dec. 3, 1949, coming into the world a few hours before his future wife joined him the next day in the bassinet next to his at City Hospital in Springfield, Ohio.
Ron graduated from Graham High School in St. Paris, Ohio, and received degrees in electrical engineering and mechanical engineering from Clark State College. He spent his working career as chief field engineer for the southern district of Continental Cablevision, which morphed into Media One and then Time Warner. He helped develop the pay movie service Cinevue upon which HBO and Cinemax were based.
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WASHINGTON Kica Matos wants to knock on every single door in her neighborhood. But this isn’t a run-of-the-mill political effort: She’s using the canvassing playbook to sign people up for Covid-19 vaccine appointments.
So far, Matos and a team of other volunteers and community organizers have secured vaccine appointments for over 5,000 people in Fair Haven, a predominantly Black and Latino neighborhood in New Haven, Conn.
“We know our community. We know these streets. We had a sense of what would work,” said Matos, who is vice president of initiatives at Vera Institute of Justice.
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Demonstrators outside New Haven Superior Court in mid-April called for the arrest of former New Haven Police Officer Gary Gamarra. This after two Fair Haven sex workers accused him of rape and the state s attorney’s office decided not to file charges despite the former officer’s admission of sexual contact with the two women.
Gamarra has claimed the sex was consensual.
Karolina Ksiazek is the director of advocacy for the Sex Workers and Allies Network, or SWAN. That’s a local group with a mission to get things like food and medical supplies to city sex workers.
She joined Connecticut Public Radio’s
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