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‘We’re all strong’
Thelma Sharlow, who has lived in town for 77 of her 94 years, says that her life "has been complicated."
Her story started in the hills of West Virginia where her father cared for Sharlow and her two sisters, Kitty and Eva Ann, after their mother walked away from the family when Sharlow - then Thelma Colleen Facemire - was 5 years old.
No mediation in Putney housing challenge
WWHT files for summary judgment, saying ‘it’s purely a legal issue’
Despite a suggestion by Environmental Court Superior Judge Thomas Durkin that mediation might resolve the issues in the dispute over the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust's (WWHT) proposed $11.7 million Alice Holway Drive housing project, neither party in the case agreed. "We offered to mediate, but the Trust wasn't...
Making the rounds
With a new study underscoring the economic impact of the arts in the state, the new head of the Vermont Arts Council offers encouragement and ideas to arts venues in a tour of the region and a discussion in Brattleboro
On a tour of southern Vermont arts sites, Susan Evans McClure, newly appointed executive director of the Vermont Arts Council (VAC), addressed about 40 area artists and arts leaders at Brattleboro's Epsilon Spires on the evening of Nov. 27. Leading Vermont's primary provider of funding, advocacy, and information for...