MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
The three Selectboard candidates vying for two open one-year seats greeted the public last week. On Feb. 11, WKVT and Brattleboro Community Television hosted one forum for the candidates, who followed that appearance with a second forum at the Brattleboro Citizens' Breakfast the next morning. Former board member Richard “Dick” DeGray, incumbent David Gartenstein, and newcomer Avery Schwenk answered questions about how, if elected to the board, they would approach economic development, homelessness, and the Police-Fire Project. DeGray and Gartenstein...
Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts (MGFA) presents GROUP EXHIBIT 2016, a diverse selection of work created in a variety of media by current and new gallery artists. This show opens with an artists reception Thursday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m., and continues through April 17. An artist forum is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 27 at 5 p.m. MGFA opened one and a half years ago with seven represented artists. GROUP EXHIBIT 2016 includes more than 20 artists from Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire,
I noticed that Bill Dunkel hit all the major points that gun grabbers would have us believe so as to carry out their nefarious gun-grabbing schemes. Selective outrage at greedy gun manufacturers and heartless NRA executives provides a pretense of populism and care for the working class. I hope that here in Vermont the working class is not buying it. I moved to Vermont from Florida, and the only thing I liked about Florida was the broad support for gun...
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