ATHENS — “This is not normal,” a New York City resident observed the other day about the polar vortex, snow, ice, then spring-like days followed by more snow and more ice. “The Earth is off its axis or something.”
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Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, Mollie Burke, Michael Mrowicki, and Zon Eastes are state representatives; Nader...
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
“I don't want to go,” Yi-Soon Kim said, when asked about her decision to sell the business - the Shin La Restaurant - that she and her husband, Tae-Mo Kim, have owned on Main Street for almost 35 years. “It's very hard,” Mrs. Kim said. “The customers are very graceful, they are so nice to me. They're like friends and family.” But Mrs. Kim is nearing age 65, and she said she “wants to prepare while I'm still healthy.” She...
New England Youth Theatre proudly presents “Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind,” or TMLMTBGB (as it is affectionately known). Written by the Neo-Futurists, and directed by NEYT fan favorite Jane Baker, TMLMTBGB became the longest running show in Chicago and the only open-run Off-Off-Broadway show in New York. Starting in 1988, the show ran 50 weekends of the year until 2016. Curtain time for this show is 7 p.m. on Oct. 4, 5, 11, and 12, and 2...
Vida King is a born and raised Vermonter who's traded the Green Mountains for the Blue Ridge Mountains, for now. She spends her time caretaking, making art, and riding waves of grief, rage, and awe. As many of you are aware, Covid is badly surging all across the country. Infection levels are higher than during 90% of the pandemic. I know many readers will instinctively want to ignore this piece. We are exhausted and traumatized by living within this unremitting...
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