BRATTLEBORO-With so much music happening in recent decades at 22 High St., one could argue...
BRATTLEBORO-As the provisos of this year's education reform law set in, the Windham Southeast School...
BRATTLEBORO-The Selectboard will host a listening session to kick off the fiscal year 2027 budget...
JACKSONVILLE-After overseeing the senior meals program for 10 years, Terrie Dumaine is stepping down from...
Turning a bill into law is a complicated process. A bill becomes a law if a majority of the members of both chambers - the House and the Senate - vote to approve it and the governor signs it. If the governor vetoes it, the bill can still succeed if the Legislature then goes ahead and overrides his veto with a two-thirds majority in both legislative bodies. Most bills never make it into law. As of this week, 869 bills...
The Estey Pipers will perform at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St., for a Tin Pan Alley sing-along concert on Saturday, June 24, at 1 p.m. in the main area of the library. Accompanying the 16 Estey Pipers will be the Green Mountain Strummers Ukulele Band, featuring Cal Heile, Deb Noe, Susan Rosano, and Karen Shapiro on ukuleles; Dennis Waring on clarinet; and Dan DeWalt playing the library's Estey organ. A Creative Aging Grant from the Vermont Arts Council was...
Often, politicians and others like to glorify American democracy, history, principles and actions. They wallow in soliloquies espousing the United States as the best, brightest, and most innovative country in the world. They beg the question: Why would anyone want to live elsewhere? Well, besides our inability to stop gun violence, our treatment of the poor (many of whom are children), our crumbling infrastructure and inadequate cell-phone service, our denial of climate change, the Koch brothers' political power, our shameful...
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