Sheela was born and raised in South Berkshire county, and is a long time language teacher and grant writer for youth-serving nonprofits. As a writer, with an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, she’s interested in education, issues of inequality, and literature. She is a Moth Story Slam winner and Grand Slam participant, and runs, with Joey Chernila, story nights at Fuel Bistro in Great Barrington. She lives in West Stockbridge with her husband and three children.
Thursday, 7 Jun 2018 - Recipients will be called the Chang-Chavkin Scholars after Arnie Chavkin and Laura Chang, ...
Friday, 25 May 2018 - I felt a big pull to do something in a community, to come back here, and make a difference ...
Thursday, 26 Apr 2018 - There are many reasons why young people aren’t going into carpentry in greater numbers. ...
Friday, 13 Apr 2018 - The Railroad Street Youth Project’s South Berkshire Community Health Coalition is partne ...
Monday, 19 Feb 2018 - 'This structure means families, school and health care staff work together and support for ...
Wednesday, 7 Feb 2018 - Would that all history were put across this way, and would that Americans were taught the ...
Sunday, 21 Jan 2018 - This is not a whodunit thriller; the first line is “The baby is dead.” By the end of p ...
Tuesday, 26 Dec 2017 - It’s a tricky business, the building issue, but it’s an opportunity, ultimately, to cr ...
Sunday, 19 Nov 2017 - Only 15 percent of Berkshire Hills third graders met or exceeded expectations in reading a ...
Tuesday, 31 Oct 2017 - Liberals have not come up with, and do not seem to be working toward, a common vision that ...
Monday, 25 Sep 2017 - There are more than 900 kids living in poverty in the neighborhoods immediately surroundin ...
Saturday, 16 Sep 2017 - "The writer is in the business of making discoveries, and whatever we can do to help her m ...
Sunday, 3 Sep 2017 - It’s unusual, if not unheard of, for four distinct organizations to join forces on such ...
Tuesday, 15 Aug 2017 - From September to June, one of every three students at Muddy Brook and one of every four a ...
Sunday, 14 May 2017 - “The kids come home filthy dirty and falling asleep at the dinner table, and that is wha ...
Monday, 20 Mar 2017 - “Daddy’s Home 2” will star Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Linda Cardellini and John Ce ...