BRATTLEBORO — Integrity is a rare word these days. Susan Keese had it!
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...
The Windham-3 district, which encompasses Athens, Brookline, Grafton, Rockingham, Windham, and a sliver of North Westminster, has three candidates running for its two seats. Incumbent Carolyn Partridge, D-Windham, is running for her 12th term in the House. Kelley Tully of Rockingham, who was appointed in April to fill the seat vacated in February by Matt Trieber, D-Rockingham, is running for her first full two-year term. Leslie Goldman of Rockingham is making her first run for public office. Tully said she...
Brattleboro Clayworks is preparing for the annual Empty Bowls Dinner with a Bowlerama event on Saturday, June 23. Bowlerama offers an opportunity for those who have little or no experience working with clay to create a bowl to donate to the Empty Bowls Dinner, held each Indigenous People's Day weekend in October at Landmark College as a fundraiser for the Food Shelf at Groundworks Collaborative. Bonnie Stearns, Alan Steinberg, and Annie Lauterbach will be available to help bowl-makers get started,
I want to express my appreciation to Fran Lynggaard Hansen for such a great tribute to Lester Dunklee. My earliest remembrance of the R.E. Dunklee and Sons Machine Shop was in the 1940s, when I needed a push lawn mower repaired. In the shop I was quite fascinated by the long shaft overhead that powered the machines. There were various size pulleys along the shaft that were belted to power the machines below. I had been used to seeing belt...
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