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.
Leslie Zucker is a certified professional life coach, a facilitator of a women's group, and...
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block,
Kerry Secrest serves as honorary consul of Lithuania to Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-A heartfelt thank you to...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes...
When Gov. Phil Scott declared a state of emergency on March 13, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly every sector of the state's economy was affected. For many businesses, the restrictions on their operations were painful to their bottom lines. For some, the safety measures proved fatal as shops and inns and restaurants closed and unemployment soared throughout Vermont. Now, 10 months later, still nervous about the future and concerned about when the pandemic will be brought under...
Many co-ops today, including the one I first joined, Bloomingfoods, are barely recognizable descendants of those co-ops of yore. Instead of a members-only co-op where you could be a member only if you worked, many co-ops now sell to non-members in the name of increasing profits. Instead of a cooperative and consensus form of government, there are now in many co-opted co-op leadership teams, i.e., a management elite, who guide the co-op toward increasing profits and we-need-to-grow-grow-grow expansion. Instead of...
“Heating it up with the Ladies of the Rainbow,” on Saturday, Jan. 28, at 8 p.m. at the VFW on Black Mountain Road, will be this year's major fundraiser for the Windham County Heat Fund. In 2005 Daryl Pillsbury and Richard Davis decided to find a way to help people struggling to pay for home heating fuel who were not eligible for existing programs. They simply decided to raise money and then figure out who was in need and help...
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