Having had a musical education myself, I found Laura Stevenson's explanation of her adjustment to a cochlear implant very informative.
What patience is required for a mother to help a child who has received a CI to learn to hear.
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...
Republican Gov. Phil Scott won his second term in convincing fashion on Tuesday night. Scott, 60, first elected to the post in 2016, defeated Christine Hallquist, a 62-year-old Democrat from Hyde Park. Scott got 55 percent of the vote to Hallquist's 40 percent. Hallquist, the former CEO of the Vermont Electric Co-op, was seeking to become the first transgender gubernatorial candidate to be elected governor in the United States. But she was going up against a long history of Vermont...
Auditions for Deerfield Valley Players' production of Cabaret will be held in Memorial Hall, 14 West Main St., March 20, 2019, from 5:30 to 8 p.m., and also on March 21 and 22, in the Community Room of Brattleboro Savings & Loan, 221 Main St., from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Be prepared to sing a song of your choice, and a song from Cabaret (16 bars each). Accompaniment will be provided. Performance dates are Aug. 1, 2, and 3 in...
Howard Fairman, a native Vermonter, likes to study official public documents and presentations, research their backgrounds and implications, document what's really happening, then share food for thought with fellow grassroots Vermonters. PUTNEY-What happens when consultants from afar "with decades of experience in large, urban settings," as they claim on their website, offer their professional advice to rural Vermont towns? Putney is an example. Based in Sheridan, Wyoming, AP Triton advised the town in its Fire Department Operations Analysis: "It is...
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