VERNON — Well, it sounds like a variation of the proverbial “you reap what you sow,” only in this case, Windham County will reap what those in Montpelier and elsewhere have sown.
Just remember: I told you so.
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...
Despite a spate of gloomy weather, spring is springing in southern Vermont, with leaves on the trees and daffodils blooming. Another sure sign? The Department of Public Works has started its spring paving projects, for which the Selectboard approved multiple project bids and one equipment bid at its May 7 meeting. DPW Director Steve Barrett informed the board that this year will bring repairs to roads in the Esteyville area of town. The department received three bids to repair the...
University of Vermont History Professor Emeritus Mark A. Stoler, Ph.D., will consider the legacy of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Depression-era New Deal policies in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro on Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. His talk, “Nothing to Fear, But Fear Itself: FDR and the New Deal,” is the opening talk of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays lecture series for the 2017-2018 season, and it is free and open to the public. From 1929 to...
In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. stated, “For years I labored with the idea of reforming existing institutions of society [through] a little change here, a little change there. Now I feel quite differently. I think you've got to have to have a reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values.” By the 1960s, his political analysis was evolving; his conceptions of racial justice would now embrace political democracy and economic democracy. Questioning capitalism and its partner, imperialism, would...
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