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.
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...
There are two great threats to American democracy today, and neither one is named Trump, said Vermont's lone congressman, Peter Welch. “One is [the U.S. Supreme Court decision] Citizens United and the immense amount of money in politics that's not accountable,” Welch said during an interview at his Burlington office. “And the other is gerrymandering, where you get boutique districts designed for either the extreme right or the extreme left. Those two issues have gotten worse since I've been in...
BRATTLEBORO-Rock River Players presented Jean Genet's The Maids last weekend at the Williamsville Hall. This weekend, the edgy 1947 drama plays the Hooker-Dunham Theater in Brattleboro. As Hilton Als wrote of The Maids in a 2014 review in The New Yorker of a revival production, "It is an unequivocally literary work," one that inspired the 1933 Papin case in France in which two sisters, employed as maids, infamously lashed out against their employer. "Much was made of the scandal by...
Thank you, Brattleboro! Thank you for supporting the “We Celebrate Democracy/Civil Rights For All” street banner now flying over Main Street in Brattleboro. Thank you for supporting the very sweet Candlelight Vigil For Democracy at Pliny Park in Brattleboro, which 50 some people attended last Sunday. Thanks to 80 donors, including 25 Brattleboro businesses, who contributed $1,710. Overfunding of $93 will be donated to Brattleboro Area Hospice. Thanks to Ann Brush of Starksboro for making our beautiful banner. Thanks to...
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