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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 — Issue 102

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Shining the light

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Anne Galloway
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 — Issue 85

Gov. Peter Shumlin recently declared that he will make it easier for news organizations – and ordinary citizens - to get information from the government. Shumlin outlined a number of improvements in the public records law and made a commitment to set changes in motion that could shift the bureaucratic attitude toward citizens' requests for information. The governor's proposal, which is based on the groundwork laid by the leaders in the Vermont House of Representatives, could crack the heavy door...

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A posthumous tribute

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 — Issue 717

An artist, writer, and anthropologist, Charles Norris-Brown died unexpectedly last October. Highly regarded on the Bellows Falls arts scene, he is remembered well in an exhibit at Bellows Falls' Canal Street Art Gallery (CSAG) through June 10. “Charles W. Norris-Brown: Distant Thunder Studio” presents original work from the late artist's unfinished graphic novel Thunder Basin within a recreation of his studio at CSAG. Viewing finished illustrations, studies, storyboards, and writings, visitors, according to CSAG's website, are welcome to explore Norris-Brown's...

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Are your Social Security benefits at risk?

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John Bronstein
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 — Issue 809

PUTNEY-Did you know that the first person in the United States to receive recurring monthly Social Security retirement checks was a Vermonter? Ida May Fuller of Ludlow started receiving benefits in January 1940 when she was 65. She was a legal secretary and lived to be 100. Her first monthly check was $22.54. Your first monthly check most probably was or will be much more than that. But are your Social Security benefits, for which you have paid FICA payroll...

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