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...
On Tuesday, July 10, at 7 p.m., at the Putney Fire House, a public hearing will be held to consider regulating development in the Sacketts Brook and East Putney Brook river corridors. According to a news release, the state has designated these corridors as hazardous areas where significant erosion and channel shifts are likely to occur. The regulations also call for 50-foot setbacks from the tops of banks for certain smaller streams. Since 1985, Putney has followed Federal Emergency Management...
The Vermont Craft Council's annual Spring Open Studio Weekend takes place this weekend, May 25 and 26. Participating studios will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, with many sites offering demonstrations as well as the opportunity to purchase art and talk to the professional artists who made it. Prior to or after the event, please call studios ahead of time before visiting. During May, visitors to the Vermont Welcome Center on Interstate 91...
Appeals and suggestions for reducing the financial burden to the home-owning taxpayers by several representatives at the Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting (RTM) had no effect. Why? Do people not listen to reason? Or subscribe to spending within the confines of one's resources? As one representative said, “We cannot buy a Cadillac on a Chevy budget.” With so many expressing concern that Brattleboro cannot afford a $16 million budget (in addition to more than $15 million for the school budget), I...
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