Tag: Newtown

Hunker typically services his customers by appointment but said he was waiving that practice for Veterans Day. Older veterans grew up in an era when there were no appointments and waiting for an open barber's chair was a social opportunity.

In her letter Susan Olshuff writes:  “Young people who are isolated can become victims of bullying, violence, and depression.”

I found it heartbreaking that these kids’ youths have been taken from them, that they must travel with counselors and bodyguards. 

In 1989, they returned to Egremont and Baldwin Hill to turn Richard’s childhood home into the Baldwin Hill Farm Bed and Breakfast, which they ran for 22 years.

At 23, Jake Hunker has realized his dream: to run his own barber shop.

“We’re at a point in this country where there’s some kind of small massacre every day, somewhere.” -- Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz

“It’s easy to sit back and look at a disaster and say, take the guns away. We do have strict gun laws and we still have a problem.” -- State Rep. William "Smitty" Pignatelli, D-Lenox