We are so proud of you, Maryalice DeAngelis! Keep up the great work. Your students are blessed to have you.
Enjoy the rest of the summer!
Rick Gordon was the founding director of the Compass School, which operated in Westminster from...
BRATTLEBORO-Have you been to 69A Elliot St. yet? Please stop in soon! It's such a...
BRATTLEBORO-I am a Connecticut-born Yankee American, second-generation Irish immigrant, raised-Catholic, 62-year-old woman working in Brattleboro.
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TOWNSHEND-When the Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB) released a report on Sept. 18 that listed Grace Cottage Hospital (GCH) as one of four hospitals financially "at-risk" and in need of "major restructuring," it came as a surprise to Chief Executive Officer Olivia Sweetnam. Sweetnam, who took over the leadership of Grace Cottage on July 1, said she had spoken with Bruce Hamory, a physician and partner with consultancy Oliver Wyman, which prepared a report for the GMCB that included recommendations...
Vermont Performance Lab created the SEED Program in 2015 to help strengthen the regional dance ecology by supporting local choreographers in the creation of new work. The program invests in Vermont artists by connecting them with tools and resources that build their work and capacity. Selection for SEED is a competitive process managed by the Performance Lab and each artist chosen is provided an artist fee, a residency at VPL, housing for up to five people for the residency, a...
In November 2014, I attended a national conference with 70 other activists opposed to the use of nuclear energy. Many have worked in this field for decades and have a deep technical grasp of the overwhelming and intractable problem of safely isolating toxic radioactive waste. I learned to ask questions I had not known even existed about the post-shutdown period. As Vermont Yankee is in the process of closing, local people are learning the ugly truth of nuclear energy, the...
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