NEWFANE — I have known Cristine White for many years in both personal and professional capacities. She is honest, independent, and fair.
I know that if she is elected to the Newfane Selectboard, she will treat everyone with respect. She has extensive business management experience and knows how to understand complex budgets and regulatory documents.
Newfane would be lucky to have her serving the town as a member of the Selectboard.
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...
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A woman's place is in the House...of Representatives. Vermont made history on Election Day as Senate President Pro Tem Becca Balint, D-Brattleboro, cruised to an easy victory in her race for the state's lone Congressional seat. Balint became the first woman - and the first openly gay woman - Vermont has sent to Congress, when she trounced Republican Liam Madden of Rockingham. Vermont had been the last state to never have had a woman represent it on Capitol Hill. With...
The current housing situation in Vermont is an absolute joke. The overall vacancy availability in the state has dropped to as low as 0.5% in recent months. How did we let this happen? There are several factors involved. They mainly stem from out-of-staters' panic-buying properties in the early stages of the pandemic, only to decide they don't need them after all. They've become Airbnb rentals. So now there are many, many, many rooms or houses that you can rent or...
The Brattleboro Music Center (BMC) Chamber Series features the new quartet Espressivo! Friday, June 2, at 7 p.m., at the BMC. This group of four artists - violinist Jaime Laredo, cellist Sharon Robinson, violist Milena Pájaro-von de Stadt, and pianist Anna Polonsky - known for their expressive playing, thought Espressivo! seemed the perfect name for their collaboration of piano and strings. For decades, Laredo and Robinson, with their piano trio partner, the late Joseph Kalichstein, were considered (1)“chamber music royalty”
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