Olney

Olney: Computer Operator to Poet

In the Greater Olney Branch Library, Veronica Henson, who is in her mid-60s, sat near a wooden oak table reading Maya Angelou’s “Even the Stars Look Lonesome.” Henson graduated, with an associate’s degree in computer

Economy

Olney: Local Residents’ Financial Housing Crisis

[soundslide url=”https://smcsites.com/soundslides/uploads/sp1117olneyhousingcrisis” height=550 width=600] Once again the economy has made a major impact on people’s lives. People are hurt and upset. Some residents of Olney are forced out of their homes because they cannot pay

Economy

Olney: Hackers Of All Trades

Dressed head to toe in many layers, a group of men stand at the corner of Broad Street and Olney Avenue and offer people rides. The temperature is in the teens. It’s the middle of

Arts and Entertainment

Olney: Growing Cambodian Roots

When thousands of Cambodian refugees arrived in America in the 1980s, they were in a country where they didn’t fit in but had no country to return home to. In order to survive, they banded