BRATTLEBORO — We here at Harmony Underground see the problem hour by hour. People are afraid to come in the parking lot, and I don't blame them.
We would love to see a business watch, like a neighborhood watch. What can be done?
Marc Schauber is executive director of the Coalition for Vermont Student Equity (CVTSE). WEST DOVER-Act...
Chuck Collins is co-editor of Inequality.org and author of the recent, Vermont-based novel Altar to...
BRATTLEBORO-To everyone at the Multicultural Center: I want to express my profound thanks and appreciation...
BRATTLEBORO-Near the end of the movie Golda, which was released for the 50th anniversary of...
More than 20 lawmakers from Vermont's three major political parties gathered last week in Montpelier to unveil bills to postpone forced school mergers. Under Act 46, the state can force schools to merge into new districts. Under rules and policies that the Vermont State Board of Education developed after passage of the 2015 education-reform law, the state has announced the forced merger of a number of local school districts - an outcome that has caused some lawmakers to have second...
A large country, armed to the teeth, entering into the dusk as a superpower, makes outlandish claims about another, much smaller and weaker country. The rest of the world's nations scratch their heads and wonder at these claims. The large country amasses troops and armaments near the smaller country. It gives the smaller country an ultimatum that cannot be met because it is based on a false premise. Very few other nations are interested in joining the bellicosity of the...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present an evening of acoustic folk music from far and near by Louisiana-based Ordinary Elephant and Putney-based Early Risers at Next Stage, 15 Kimball Hill, on Friday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m. Folk duo Ordinary Elephant has spent the better part of the last decade on a never-ending tour that's earned Crystal and Pete Damore critical acclaim and made fans of luminaries like Tom Paxton and Mary Gauthier. In 2017, the couple took home...
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