RE: “Having his back” [News, March 13]:
An amazing write up about amazing people. Keep it coming!
Wilda L. White, Hilary Melton, and Malaika Puffer are founding directors of MadFreedom Advocates, Inc.,
BRATTLEBORO-While it's encouraging that we're finally approaching a more inclusive way of recognizing the voices...
BRATTLEBORO-The results from the Charter Revision Committee's recent poll in Districts 7, 8, and 9...
Peter Adair is the author of the books Sacred Universe and Sacred Earth. WESTMINSTER WEST-Unlikely...
Good day to you, denizens of the verdant Green Mountains of southern Vermont! If you're reading this column on Wednesday (its day of publication) and you enjoy summer weather, seize the present moment and get outside! Unseasonable warmth and humidity are most likely leaving these shores until the spring of 2019, barring any anomalous mid-cold season warm surges, of which we've had a few over the past several years. Autumn is arriving and will be preceded by a good bout...
Twilight Music continues its 12th annual Twilight on the Tavern Lawn series of folk, world beat, rock, jazz, zydeco, Celtic, swing, blues, and bluegrass summer concerts on Sunday, June 15 (Father's Day), with Kat Wright and Brett Hughes' Americana music quartet. Kat and Brett's Burlington-based band features the pair's soaring vocal harmonies and Brett's acoustic and electric guitar playing. Their harmonies evoke mountain traditions and bluesy soul, all lonesome and heartfelt, whether they're singing their own songs or inspired covers.
Many of us chose to live in Vermont because we liked the old-fashioned lifestyle: local milk from dairy farms, heating with wood, gravity-flow spring water, sugaring with horses, visiting friends, and cooking for bake sales and potluck dinners instead of watching TV all evening. But times are changing. Dairy farms are disappearing. Old wood-heating systems can't be used because they're not up to modern specs. Spring water is considered questionable. Sugaring is done with plastic tubing and pumps. And everyone...
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