WEST BRATTLEBORO — Beautifully written! It's easy to lose sight of the ones we do help when we focus our hearts on the ones we can't.
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...
Nearly a year ago, community leaders gathered in the Cotton Mill for an event launching southern Vermont's efforts to welcome and resettle more than 100 evacuees from Afghanistan. These evacuees fled their homeland in August 2021 with the collapse of the Kabul-based Afghan government and the subsequent takeover of the country by the Taliban. They eventually ended up in Vermont at the beginning of this year, with the campus of the SIT/World Learning in Brattleboro as their first stop. Weeks...
The Vermont Jazz Center's fifth Emerging Artist Festival begins with youth jazz ensembles performing at 118 Elliot on Friday, Nov. 4, continues on Saturday, Nov. 5 with student groups performing, and culminates on Saturday, Nov. 5 with a clinic and a concert by Grammy-nominated guitarist Dan Wilson. The festival celebrates the contributions of up-and-coming musicians who have not yet acquired the name recognition of older artists but who strongly deserve to be heard - like Wilson, a talent whose career...
Career-staffed fire departments moving to all-volunteer firefighting forces is a “trendâ€? Thorough reporting would fact-check a claim like that, along with other silly claims, such as the one made elsewhere by Bellows Falls Village President Nancy McAuliffe that people are selling their homes and moving because of the $80-a-year cost per-$100,000 home to pay career firefighters. Thankfully, she said nothing quite so silly at Village Meeting, where her plan was voted down soundly, by a 2-to-1 margin. Nothing makes a...
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