BRATTLEBORO — Thank you for painting a quick sketch of Charles Monette, who, after 19 years, is once again presenting his artistic work on the stage. I look forward to seeing “Becoming van Gogh.”
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...
BELLOWS FALLS-Unlike several of her Republican colleagues who have faced some very vocal voter outrage at town halls around the country, U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., was greeted by cheers and a lengthy standing ovation from the crowd at a packed-to-the-walls Bellows Falls Opera House on Monday evening. In her invitation to the meeting, Balint pledged her commitment to "standing against policies that undermine our democracy, attack our rights, raise prices and prop up billionaires at the expense of working...
BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont Symphony Orchestra will head to Windham County to present two cutting-edge music presentations at the Brattleboro Music Center - one that introduces classical music to children and families, and the other a performance of rock 'n' roll classics. "Anyone can access this music," says Elise Brunelle, VSO's executive director. "The word classical tends to shut people down." Brunelle says that as the VSO moves toward the end of its 90th anniversary season, "This is our way of opening...
Ten years ago, I wrote these words from a well of grief after the multiple nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima, Japan: “I imagine being told to evacuate my family (three children and two pets), along with 140,000 other people, into a homeland that is already a disaster from an earthquake and a tsunami. I imagine myself knowing I am leading them into a radiation zone. I imagine not being able to smell it, see it, feel it.” Nobody knew then what...
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