PUTNEY — I am so grateful for this commentary, which names the unreasonable, but terribly powerful, fear - of a tyrannical government actually disarming citizens - behind so many opponents of gun-safety laws.
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.
DUMMERSTON-Without wanting to validate Trump's demonization of America's shockingly large homeless population, I would like...
Several years after being detected here, the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis, EAB) continues to munch on a potential feast of more than 150 million ash (Fraxinus) trees in Vermont. That's 5 to 7 percent of the state's trees on average or about 1 in 12 trees, although in some areas, such as the Champlain Islands, the number is more like 40 percent. Losing this many trees would clearly have a significant impact, but there's still time to plan proactively...
The Vermont Jazz Center welcomes Helen Sung and celebrates her Chamber Music America-sponsored project, “Sung With Words” on Saturday, Jan. 19, at 8 p.m. The pianist/composer will present a new body of work that embodies the alliance of poetry and jazz and then takes it to new places. The performers in the octet are Helen Sung (piano and composition), Jason Palmer (trumpet), John Ellis (woodwinds), Christie Dashiell and Alina Engibaryan (Vocals), David Wong (bass), Kush Abadey (drums) and Samuel Torres...
The assault on local retail began with the Sears catalog. Unless things change, it will be finished by Amazon. A big change in U.S. rural life began in 1913 with the introduction of Rural Free Delivery. This change paved the way for retail's decline, which has happened in several distinct phases. * * * Phase 1: A forebear of Sears, in business since 1886, adopted the Sears Roebuck Co. name in 1893. Catalog sales began in 1888, and by 1895...
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