DUMMERSTON — Last week, the pedestrian crossing button for the Malfunction Junction traffic light that's closest to the Riverview Cafe was visibly falling apart and didn't work. Today, I saw that someone had tried to fix it with tape, but it still didn't work.
Seeing as the state bought this button just a few months ago, hopefully the state can get the company that made the button to fix it for free.
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Voters in the Leland & Gray Union High School District towns of Townshend, Brookline, Jamaica, Newfane, and Brookline will vote by Australian ballot on Wednesday, Feb. 2, to adopt or reject the 2011-12 budget of $6,328,984. The budget had been previously proposed and approved by a majority of members of the union district school board. Polls will be open in town offices in Brookline and Townshend (9 a.m.), and Jamaica and Windham (10 a.m.). Newfane residents will cast their ballots...
I feel sad about this. I have always felt that Peter Rizzo has been a good yoga teacher - one of the best. I don't discount the feelings of the women who have spoken, but I sense that there has been a grave misunderstanding between Peter and some of his students that maybe should have been sorted out much earlier. I, for one, was comfortable with the physical assists and even the intimate bodily contact it entailed. For me, it...
U.S. sanctions have blocked the Venezuelan people from obtaining food and medicine. These sanctions resulted in at least 40,000 deaths between mid-2017 and the end of 2018, according to a study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research - and that was prior to the most severe sanctions, announced in January 2019. What exactly is happening in Venezuela? What can be done? Those questions will be addressed during the Vermont premiere of a new documentary film, Venezuelans Under Siege,
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