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One out of six students in the Barnegat school district have opted out of the new state-mandated sex education curriculum

The Texas Health and Human Services Department has been awarded a two-year, $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It’s to ensure funds used in the SNAP or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program go only to those in need of them. HHSC’s Kelly Weldon says her agency has prevented m

Wilton Reads 2021, part of library's April lineup Written by Wilton Library Wilton Reads - Spring Poetry with Judson Scruton: Natasha Trethewey - Experiencing Prejudice in the American South, 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Judson Scruton leads a 4-week virtual series on the poetry of this year’s Wilton Reads author and poet Natasha Trethewey. Natasha Trethewey is a 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and the 2020 author of a widely-acclaimed memoir —  Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir. In her five poetry collections, she explores her own mixed-race experiences growing up in Mississ...

Wilton Library hosts Wilton Reads author virtually April 15 Written by Janet Crystal The cars were snaked through Wilton Library’s parking lot up to its Drive-Thru Window like a conga line, with drivers eager to receive their free copies of Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir, the Wilton Reads 2021 selection. With the library’s choice of Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey, the community will explore racism and race relations through programming that will help continue the conversation begun with the events and headlines of last year. The book giveaway was made possible by Fa...