Fric Spruyt is a property owner and property manager in Brattleboro and a member of...
BRATTLEBORO-The recent eclipse that Vermonters were able to experience was beyond breathtaking. My husband and...
PUTNEY-As a physician and a hospice volunteer, I read with interest the recent article highlighting...
BELLOWS FALLS-I see as a huge problem the number of apartments and houses being used...
As most Vermonters talked up Town Meeting Day last week, Brattleboro government leaders - who spent months actively pushing for a state law allowing municipal mask mandates - needed only 10 minutes to quietly lift their own. Though Windham County has among the lowest regional COVID-19 case rates, Brattleboro officials know the conversation isn't over. “People are going to feel differently about it,” Selectboard member Daniel Quipp said at a meeting overshadowed by the reporting of vote results. “Some will...
Vermont is known as a progressive safe haven. However, some of our citizens struggle to connect personal experience to this sentiment. The purpose of publicizing these feelings is not to throw shade at the national progressive movement that Senator Bernie Sanders is trying to foster, but to point out that Vermonters in marginalized positions - be they poor, disabled, LGBTQ, people of color, indigenous, immigrant, or non-mainstream in other facets of identity - help to create this state and make...
Vermont Academy sophomore Jamie Lumley, of Putney, is the school's first Poetry Out Loud champion, and is set to represent the school at Poetry Out Loud's state competition in Barre on March 13. This is the first time Vermont Academy has participated in this national recitation contest created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation and administered with state arts agencies such as Vermont Council for the Arts. The contest encourages the nation's youth to learn...
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