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Riverwest Currents February 2019

By Currents Staff on January 2019 in Arts & Entertainment, Bits and Pieces, Business Spotlight, Comix, Music & Events, Neighbor Spotlight, News, Poetry, Politics

Riverwest Currents January 2019 Issue

By Vince Bushell on December 2018 in A&E Briefs, Arts & Entertainment, Bits and Pieces, Comix, Commentary & Opinion, Ecology and the Environment, Editorials, Music & Events, Neighbor Spotlight, News, Riverwest Elders, Uncategorized

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Franklin Pierce Elementary sheds name of pro-slavery president, reinvents itself as Riverwest Elementary

By Melanie Lawder on December 2018 in News, Telling Our Stories

by Melanie Lawder For years, teachers and staff at Franklin Pierce Elementary School had pondered why their school name celebrated an anti-abolitionist president who continually bowed to pro-slavery interests in the years leading up the American Civil War. A one-term Democrat from New Hampshire, Franklin Pierce is often considered to be one of the least […]