BELLOWS FALLS — Bellows Falls has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to art and culture, and I'm proud to be a small part of that.
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...
The Scott administration and the Legislature are busy building the state budget, helped by an injection of federal COVID-19 relief funds that has staved off the pandemic's more-bitter economic consequences. But while that $210 million boost is new, most of Vermont's economic problems are not. The stakes are high for many Vermont households. How lawmakers and the administration decide to invest this new funding could change how individual Vermonters recover economically - or whether they continue to struggle as many...
Elayne Clift stated in her column about abortion that a Supreme Court justice said that women don't need abortions “because they can easily dump their newborn babies into adoption or foster care like so much detritus.” The definition of “detritus” is waste of any kind, or organic matter produced by the decomposition of organisms. Is she seriously stating that adopted/foster children are simply waste products? I call upon the author to clarify her truly horrifying statement.
Prints by painter Aldro T. Hibbard will be sold as a fundraiser on Sunday, Nov. 5, at the Townshend Town Hall. A free event, “Early Photos of Townshend” will begin at 4 p.m., followed by light refreshments and the opportunity to purchase a print that had formerly been on sale in Hibbard's Rockport art studio. Although these are copies rather than originals, they are “quite charming and depict Hibbard at his best in Vermont,” according to a news release. Hibbard...
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