“When you are through changing, you are through.” (Bruce Barton)
Jamie Margolis, you and Eva have embraced change and grown. Yet never say never, as you have implied in your beautiful article. You are young, and vibrant, and you will experience countless more wonderful changes.
Difficult as leaving your current world in Brattleboro will be, many of us will welcome you back to Israel with open arms.
Thank you for writing this beautiful piece.
Jonathan Elwell organizes with Vermont Just Justice, an organization whose mission is "to promote the...
Elizabeth Bridgewater is executive director of the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust. BRATTLEBORO-Every April, communities...
Libby Bennett and Rita Ramirez submitted this piece on behalf of Groundworks Collaborative, where they...
Elayne Clift (elayne-clift.com) has written this column about women, politics, and social issues from the...
A federal agency voted on Aug. 1 in favor of allowing cable companies to include the value of services and equipment that they have previously provided at no cost to states and municipalities for use of public property. This vote changes a decades-old rule, permitting the telecommunications companies to deduct the value of that equipment and those services from the fees that have long gone in full to local-access public, educational, and government (PEG) cable stations like Brattleboro Community Television...
Back on Jan. 15, I visited my financial advisor to see how our nest egg was doing, as I do every year. As usual, the conversation included speculation about whether a recession might happen sometime soon. As usual, we decided that nobody knows, so we should maintain the same investment strategy. I observed that in past recessions, the trigger has usually been some major policy or regulatory failure (like subprime mortgages in 2008 or the savings and loan crisis in...
On April 7 and 8, the Vermont Jazz Center will present a music festival including eight concerts and five educational presentations on solo jazz piano. The Solo Jazz Piano Fest is a celebration of the Steinway D, nine-foot concert grand piano given to the Center by the McKenzie Family Charitable Trust and rebuilt by piano technician Bill Ballard. The Center is now the only venue in New England that supports a festival devoted exclusively to the art of solo jazz-piano...
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