This is a well-written article on Crescent Dragonwagon. I am an alumnus of Fearless Writing and love her honesty when she speaks. She is an outstanding instructor and positive influence.
Michael Gigante, Ph.D. notes: "This is a piece I wrote after the first Trump election...
ATHENS-A group of morally confused Brattleboro citizens have petitioned onto the March 4 Town Meeting...
DUMMERSTON-Dear Gov. Scott, You enjoy a broad, bipartisan base of support here in Vermont, elected...
The Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Human Services Committee submitted recommended funding for human services nonprofits...
After nearly four years of planning, work has begun on the 5-megawatt net-metered solar project on the town's former landfill at the Windham Solid Waste Management District's Old Ferry Road facility. The project is behind schedule. In March, 2017, an official with Sky Solar, the project owner, told the District's Board of Supervisors construction on the photovoltaic solar array would begin in July and the project would go online in November. Construction on the 17-acre parcel, which Sky Solar is...
Margaret MacLean has been an educator for 50 years, working as a teacher, school principal, and consultant in Vermont, the United States, and internationally. PEACHAM-Over the past 14 years, Vermont has enacted three sweeping school district consolidation laws: Act 153, Act 156, and Act 46. One of the goals of Act 46, the most recent legislation, was to provide education "at a cost that parents, voters and taxpayers value." Are consolidated districts delivering on this promise? A big-picture look says...
Given that Susan Dedell is the director of the Brattleboro Concert Choir and Orchestra, it isn't too surprising that when she speaks about her “enduring and evolving first love,” she is referring not to some remarkable person from her past, but rather to a piece of choral music: Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem. “Brahms' German Requiem is music that is both triumphant and full of joy, even frisky at times, all unusual things for a requiem,” Dedell says. “There is...
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