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!
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...
Lieutenant General Todd T. Semonite, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), retired on Sept. 10 after 41 years of service. According to a news release, the Bellows Falls native was originally scheduled to retire on May 19; however, President Donald J. Trump extended his tenure until Congress could confirm his successor, Major General Scott Spellmon. This year, Semonite and the Army Corps of Engineers answered FEMA's call to simultaneously build 36 alternate-care facilities across the United States,
PUTNEY-Sandglass Theater's "A Rafter of Crankies" returns to Green Mountain Orchards, 130 West Hill Rd., for the fourth consecutive year. This year, Sandglass is also celebrating the 10th anniversary of the festival. As part of the Putney Craft Tour during Thanksgiving Weekend, performances will take place at 5 and 7:30 p.m. on both Friday, Nov. 29, and Saturday, Nov. 30. "Crankies" are panoramic scrolls advanced through a frame by cranking handles. The effect "is like watching the analog ancestor of...
What does the Secretary of Education mean when she says our overwhelming votes against school merger don't matter? The last time I looked, we were still a democracy, both in our country and especially in Vermont, where freedom and democracy have always mattered. But now, the secretary of education and the Agency of Education's lawyers are telling us, and telling many other school districts across the state, that their community votes don't matter. If this is the case, why would...
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