DUMMERSTON — Thanks to Jerry Goldberg for a terrific uplifting interview. It is great to finally read something positive about our area after all the negativity.
I am so glad to have Luke in our community with his wonderful positive attitude and feeling for the area, for bringing a great business to town, and for adding so many young people to the mix. I hope we can bring in a lot more bright and creative younger people to town.
Thanks, Jerry and Luke.
Jonathan Elwell organizes with Vermont Just Justice, an organization whose mission is "to promote the...
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With Town Clerk Denise Germon's resignation at midnight on March 6, it was up to the town's Board of Civil Authority to appoint someone hours later to preside over Town Meeting. The BCA, which consists of the town's justices of the peace, the Selectboard, and the town agent, met in the Fifth Grade room at the Putney Central School at 9 a.m. on March 6 - an hour before Town Meeting was called to order. Under statute, it is the...
Though I had met her much earlier, I first got to know Sara Coffey when I drove her around Vernon as she campaigned to become the state representative for Windham-1. I was impressed by her ability to connect with and listen to people, whether or not they shared similar political views. I believe she understands the needs of Vermonters and has proven so repeatedly in the bills she has sponsored and supported in her years in office. I believe the...
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present contemporary folk singer/songwriters Ellis Paul and Garrin Benfield at Next Stage on Friday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. Ellis Paul was at the forefront of singer/songwriters that emerged from the Boston folk scene in the 1990s, creating a movement that revitalized the national acoustic music circuit with an urban, literate, folk pop style. With a probing humanism shaped in part by the five years he spent as a social worker, Ellis frames...
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