Tue, 02/23/2021 - 2:19pm sarahp MARY JANE CHURCHILL WING
LEICESTER Mary Jane Churchill Wing, 94, passed gracefully on Feb. 13, 2021, surrounded by family at her beloved Lake Dunmore. She was born May 5, 1926, in Proctor, Vt., to Winnifred Locke and A. Hawley Churchill of Brandon, Vt. She grew up in Brandon on a self-sufficient farm with a water-powered sawmill, sugarbush, gardens, trout hatchery, Morgan horses and Jersey cows.
She graduated from Brandon High School in 1943. Upon graduation from Stephen’s College, she went to Boston and worked for Eastern Airlines until her marriage to Howard W. (Pete) Wing in 1948. Together they had three daughters: Deborah, Melissa and Heather.
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David Wilcox performs in a Concerts for a Cause livestream at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26. Presented by Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, proceeds benefit Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program and Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project.
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David Wilcox will perform an online concert for UUCB Concerts for a Cause at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26.
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick has had to cancel 11 of its Concerts for a Cause so far because of COVID-19.
However, Wilcox whose June concert was canceled, has invited Concerts for a Cause to take part in his East Coast virtual livestream concert. It’s not the same as a live concert at the church, but it will be live online and attendees will be able to make requests and chat with Wilcox in chat.
Star Tap by Emily Furr. Furr paints celestial visions that place cool, hard-edged objects within weightless, star-filled voids. Furr’s artwork plays with a codex of motifs, exploring their potential formations through a process of repetition. The artist’s serialized tropes take the shape of tongues laden with hallucinogenic sugar cubes, sloping conveyor belts adorned with astral points, rocket engines with acutely sharp, almost erotic edges, tubes, chains, and myriad metal hardware. Furr’s paintings can be positioned in relation to postmodern artists such as Lee Lozano (American, 1930–99) and Forrest Bess (American, 1911–77), whose depictions of archetypal shapes, colors, and quotidian objects…
NATURE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: Greening ideas for the Swampscott school-building design team
Toni Bandrowicz
Opportunity seldom knocks twice. As the town of Swampscott embarks upon the siting of a new elementary school, I can hear it knocking.
Here, at the planning stage, the town has the opportunity to ensure that the new school is environmentally sustainable, protects neighboring natural areas, and provides ample open space for play and learning. It will be much harder and more expensive to incorporate energy saving and sustainable solutions after the project is completed, rather than now at the design phase.
Why is this important? It’s because open space - not just classroom space - is vital to our children’s education. Research consistently shows that access to open space, especially natural green open space, promotes cognitive, physical, social and emotional wellbeing. In designing the new school, we need to expand open space wherever possible, and protect the