Stephen Trimble

Eighty residents gathered at the Acton Congregational Church on Sunday, June 14, at 2 p.m. for a dramatic reading commemorating the 250th anniversary of Acton’s pivotal Town Meeting vote for independence from Great Britain — a vote cast on that very date ... See more

This June, the Antiquities Act turns 120 years old. Since Teddy Roosevelt signed the law on June 8, 1906, nearly every president has used it to designate national monuments — a total of nearly 170 cherished preserves. Only Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and... See more

Utah Republican Rep. Celeste Maloy is irritated. Her most recent attack on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument spurred wide and deep opposition. She pushed back in a video with direct, if misleading, language. Maloy has long criticized this southe... See more

Writers on the Range: Jane Goodall told us never give up Writers on the Range In her “Last Words” interview that was broadcast after her death, Jane Goodall talked about her calm in the face of “the dark times we are living in now.” She devoted her life t... See more

Bursting bubbles Americans face a test of community and citizenship Each of us Americans conducts our daily life in bubbles, all shockingly siloed from each other. These days, we don’t share much common ground between our circumscribed worlds based on cul... See more