BRATTLEBORO — RE: “A community photographer, mentor, and friend” [Editorial, April 3]:
A nice tribute to a good friend who is already missed by many.
Cassandra Holloway works for a nonprofit that focuses on substance misuse prevention and youth empowerment. Gavin...
WESTMINSTER WEST-The United States is in a different place from where it was seven months...
GUILFORD-I want to commend Steev Lynn for correcting the historical record in response to Tristan...
Disclosure: Michael Bosworth is the treasurer of the board of directors of Vermont Independent Media,
In February of this year, Gov. Phil Scott nominated Nancy Waples to a seat on Vermont's Supreme Court, and she was unanimously confirmed by the Vermont Senate in late March. Judge Waples' ascendance could never have happened if ethnic quotas that limited the number of Asian people who could enter this country were not lifted when she was a child. Her Chinese parents fled Communist China, but her father was the only member of her family allowed to immigrate to...
Tenor saxophonist and vocalist Camille Thurman, who has been called a "rising star" by DownBeat magazine and a "first class saxophonist that blows the proverbial roof off the place" by All About Jazz, will appear at the Vermont Jazz Center (VJC) on Saturday, Jan. 20, at 7:30 p.m. She will be accompanied by her touring ensemble, the Darrell Green Quartet, which includes Wallace Roney Jr., trumpet; Jordan Williams, piano; Paul Beaudry, bass; Darrell Green, drums. According to VJC Director Eugene...
On May 21 and 23, members of Extinction Rebellion (XR) Vermont and allies stood along Main Street and Putney Road to create awareness that the COVID-19 crisis has presented us with the opportunity to envision and create a better world. The activists wore face masks and observed social distancing recommendations. Activism often seeks to disrupt the status quo or the order of normality, with the intent of both raising awareness for a cause and beginning to implement change for the...
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