RE: “A good session for our lawmakers” [Editorial, May 16]:
A “good session” if you call redistributing other people's money good.
Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, Mollie Burke, Michael Mrowicki, and Zon Eastes are state representatives; Nader...
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
During her first walk through the fire-gutted Brooks House last year, Tapp Barnhill, executive director of academic centers for the Community College of Vermont, remembers saying to members of the Mesabi Group, “[You] deserve a lifetime achievement award.” Fire ripped through the prominent downtown landmark in April 2011, destroying 60 apartments and displacing 10 businesses. Firefighters extinguished the accidental electrical fire, and the 80,000-square-foot historical structure remained standing, but uninhabitable without major renovations. Flash forward to March 14 and the...
Every summer, 80 students from across the nation, Asia, and South America gather in Putney for the Vermont Jazz Center's Summer Workshop, a week of intensive jazz education, concerts, and jamming. Students have ranged in age from 12 to 80, and they are taught by some of the country's leading musicians, such as vocalist Sheila Jordan and drummer Satoshi Takeishi. And among those students, every summer, are several Windham County residents whose fees are paid by the Jazz Center's Community...
Agatha Christie is worth going back to, isn't she? Underneath the pretty plotting and stereotypical characters lie real human emotion and feelings. And that she created an iconic character in Hercule Poirot with her first book when she was 25 is no mean feat, either.
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