TOWNSHEND — If you were at the Bellows Falls Village Meeting, it was obvious the 2-to-1 margin of the budget vote was all firefighters who voted that budget back in - and only a handful of citizens.
Cassandra Holloway works for a nonprofit that focuses on substance misuse prevention and youth empowerment. Gavin...
WESTMINSTER WEST-The United States is in a different place from where it was seven months...
GUILFORD-I want to commend Steev Lynn for correcting the historical record in response to Tristan...
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Melany Kahn knows many people recognize her father, the late acclaimed artist Wolf Kahn, for his blurred, bucolic paintings. But she remembers his delight in searching for the details he left out of his landscapes. “My dad loved to forage for anything you could pluck off a tree or bush or pick off the ground,” Kahn recalled recently at the family's Vermont homestead. Her mother, fellow abstract expressionist Emily Mason, had a special affinity for mushrooms. “If you took a...
BELLOWS FALLS-The Rockingham Free Public Library (RFPL) continues its collaboration with cooperatively owned Flat Iron Coffeehouse to present poetry and music on Saturday, March 29, from 3 to 5 p.m. with poets Ryan Skrabalak of Kingston, New York, and Beverly Ketch of Northampton, Massachusetts, and acoustic music with Stella Kola, the band Ketch leads, which features members of Western Massachusetts's psychedelic-folk-experimental music scene. Skrabalak most recently released his poetry collection, National Lube (SpeCt!, 2024) and has published a host of...
In July, The Washington Post estimated that, as president, Donald J. Trump has told more than 20,000 lies. In a press conference on Aug. 8, Trump betrayed the truth yet again and he got called on it. The president gloated about his administration having passed the Veterans Choice Act, a piece of legislation that made it possible for veterans to use their government health benefits at providers other than VA hospitals. In reality, it was signed into law by former...
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