“A simple quiz” [Voices, Sept. 5] was a very-well-done article.
To any who might say that I'm anti-God or even anti-religion, I would reply: No. Just anti-theocracy.
Django Grace describes himself as an environmentalist, skier, chiller, and lifelong Brattleborian. He graduated from...
Chloe Learey is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development...
WESTMINSTER WEST-My recent essay in The Commons revealed the unique position of Vermont as a...
Roger Allbee served as secretary of agriculture, farms, and markets for Vermont in the administration...
PUTNEY-After years of planning and navigating legal challenges, co-developers Windham-Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) and Burlington-based Evernorth celebrated the groundbreaking of 25 mixed-income, energy-efficient apartments on Alice Holway Drive on May 5. The 25 new apartments will help address the housing shortage in Putney, which is estimated to need 80 new rental and owner-occupied homes within the next five years, according to the town's recently released Housing Needs Assessment and Action Plan. According to the project developers, these highly energy-efficient homes...
Move over, Madonna and Lady Gaga, here comes Tosca. At least that's what Windham Orchestra Director Hugh Keelan contends about Puccini's opera. “Tosca is like a rock concert,” Keelan says. “Although it needs no electronics or amplifiers, the singing is so high-voltage that this opera is viscerally powerful. Hearing live the vocal power of these 'superhuman' opera singers, people will be astonished by the sheer sound in a way that listening to opera on records or at the cinema cannot...
On Town Meeting Day, 63 out of 65 Vermont towns voted to support resolutions that call on state lawmakers and our Congressional delegation to work on a Constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2010 which permitted unlimited corporate spending on political campaigns. Besides opening the floodgates for hundreds of millions of dollars to be poured into this year's presidential election, Citizens United also sparked a debate over the idea...
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