SAXTONS RIVER — This is to alert your readership to the fact that lately there have been many attempts to scam local residents into thinking that their computer has been hacked, or a “firewall has been breached” and the computer needs to be “cleaned” by an “Expert Computer Service.”
If a box pops up on your screen and you can't get rid of it, don't call the phone number in the box. Just turn off your computer and start it up again.
Please don't be taken in by these “helpful” experts.
Fric Spruyt is a property owner and property manager in Brattleboro and a member of...
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State Rep. Mike Mrowicki, D-Putney, was first elected to the Windham-4 House district encompassing Dummerston, Putney, and Westminster in 2006. In his five re-election campaigns for the House since then, Mrowicki has always had his district-mate, David Deen of Westminster, to run beside him. This year, however, marks the first campaign that the 63-year-old Mrowicki hasn't had Deen at his side. Deen, 73, decided not to run for re-election after serving 14 terms in the House. “It wasn't until there...
I am blessed to live in Vermont, where there is a deep tradition of state government playing a positive and practical role in dealing with societal problems. This is possible because public-spirited leaders are able to find common ground, regardless of partisan differences. You can find that spirit behind the creation of our most significant laws: tough debate, tough compromise. And Vermont is better for it. Today, Congress is light years away from this tradition. Ideology rules there. A desire...
Canal Street Art Gallery, 23 Canal Street, presents The Vermont Salon, a new open-call exhibition hung in the floor-to-ceiling Salon style. The gallery brings this classical way of showing art into a contemporary time. The art show will be inclusive of all art, and the opportunity to exhibit is open to the public. The Vermont Salon celebrates the abundance and diversity of art created by artists everyday. It embraces some of the aesthetics and structures of the original salons, held...
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