GUILFORD — I was very disappointed in the article written about the Feb. 17 meet-and-greet for the new Guilford Selectboard candidates.
To include the content of an email from Skye Morse, who alluded to Jason Herron, one of the candidates, as being linked to a white supremacist movement, was scandalous. What evidence do you have of the truth of that label? Absolutely none!
You owe Jason an apology.
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After four years of electronic Town Meetings, the town was very happy to be back at the school Tuesday for an in-person meeting. About 100 residents filled the cafeteria at 10 a.m. to hear Town Moderator Cindy Jerome call the meeting to order and remind them to respect one another while debating heated town issues. "Caring for this community is far more important than anything else," she said. Jerome opened the meeting by solemnly reading the names of the 59...
Most waterbodies marking a boundary between two states or countries have an imaginary dotted line running down their middle. The Connecticut River does not because, as everyone "knows," the river belongs to New Hampshire. However, as with all things human, the real circumstances are more complicated. The reality about river ownership started with the original land grants from England, modified during the time of the American Revolution, with the present-day boundary set by a U.S. Supreme Court decision. The English...
New York-based artist Juan Hinojosa, whose work is on view in the exhibition “Paradise City” at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC), will lead a storytelling roundtable on the theme of newcomers and immigration at BMAC on Thursday, May 4, at 7 p.m. Presented in collaboration with Vermont Folklife, the event will begin with a short tour of the exhibition, which features Hinojosa's collaged figures symbolizing travelers from another world. Afterward, visitors will be invited to share their family...
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