WILMINGTON — Sounds like Steve Moore doesn't know what the roads are like in the winter - people like to find fault with what road crews do.
But he's probably the first one to bitch when they're not plowed or sanded during a freezing rainstorm.
We have to keep people safe, even with all the new state regulations that are given to us every year. So bite me if you don't agree.
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Members of the United Nurses and Allied Professionals union lined the sidewalk in front of the Brattleboro Retreat last week as a volley of car horns sounded in support of the union members. The picketers held their informational picket during a week-long heat wave, waving to the passing traffic and carrying signs that portrayed a strained relationship between staff and management at the psychiatric hospital. A change in how the Retreat configures schedules - which affects inpatient nurses, licensed practical...
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...
The Catherine Dianich Gallery is currently aglow with the paintings of Gilbert “Gib” Taylor, a longtime and much-loved teacher at Marlboro College who died in 2006. Taylor, born in 1929 and raised on Deer Isle, Maine, attended Harvard University and the Art Students League and, after serving in Germany during the Korean War, went to the American School of Art in New York on the GI Bill. He lived in New York for 10 years, his “painting adolescence” as he...
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