GUILFORD — Many thanks to the generous and caring staff at Hannaford for making our shopping trip there such an enjoyable and successful event.
We prepared 28 baskets, each of which provided a complete Thanksgiving dinner for a local family.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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Good day to you, denizens of the verdant lands of Windham County! The upcoming week is looking pretty good in terms of fair and pleasant weather, with a slight warming trend expected. With respect to the U.S. Drought Monitor, we're experiencing some dry conditions in the town of Vernon as well as neighboring Cheshire County in southwest New Hampshire. The best chance for rain to help mitigate such aridity would be Saturday evening into the first half of Sunday, when...
In a performance sponsored by Yellow Barn, an innovative quartet of musicians from Chicago will showcase a work-in-progress written for a classic film based on a beloved children's novel. Yellow Barn, the international center for chamber music in Putney, opened its 2016-17 residency season with Third Coast Percussion, a four-man percussion ensemble that has come to Vermont to work on a new soundtrack for the Academy Award-nominated film “Paddle to the Sea” in advance of the premiere at the Cleveland...
Jim Dandeneau, executive director of the Vermont Democratic Party, has said, “We know the Vermont Republican Party is filthy with insurrectionist sympathizers.” What possible general good was Dandeneau thinking would come from this broad-brush remark? Is the thought of Vermonters becoming ever more divided, ever more uncivil to one another (as use of the word “filthy” certainly helps to further), a strategy Dandeneau is pursuing? It certainly seems so. While as a rule I vote for (and sometimes contribute to)
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