RE: “What happens when a library loses its spirit?” [Column, Sept. 25]:
What a beautiful and resonant description of what we love about and get from libraries!
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 Police Department might soon call Black Mountain Road home. The Selectboard approved moving the police department to the north end of town on Jan. 19 after months of deliberating the multiple building configurations in the Police-Fire Facilities Project. In a 4–1 vote, the board approved moving forward with the $11.8 million project alternative. Along with moving the police department, the plan calls for completing extensive renovations and building an addition at the Central Fire Station. Under this plan, Fire...
The Wellness Committee of the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union is launching Let's Read 2019, a community reading initiative, during the summer and fall of 2019. All members of the communities of Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, Putney, and Vernon ages 9 and up are encouraged to participate. Let's Read 2019 will feature The Benefits of Being an Octopus by local author Ann Braden. This book is appropriate for children in fourth grade and up, as well as adults. Several events - including...
I'll run as a Republican primary candidate for governor and continue as an independent for the November election. I presented an amendment to the House Government Operations Committee that would have compelled the hosts of debates and forums to permit candidates who behave with decorum to be permitted to equally participate. As an independent who has shown up for every debate for two election cycles but has been silenced by censorship, I urge the reader to understand that money in...
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