BRATTLEBORO — I hope we can encourage Opal Robinson to get back into her writing or her art - it is therapeutic.
My hope is that the bullying in the local schools will somehow be stopped.
So glad she's home safe. Good luck to her and the family.
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...
With barely a month of campaigning left before the Aug. 14 primary, three of the four Democratic candidates for governor came to the monthly Brattleboro Citizens Breakfast on July 6 to make their pitches before about 60 people. James Ehlers of Winooski, Christine Hallquist of Hyde Park, and Brenda Siegel of Newfane took turns answering questions that were submitted in advance of the event at the Brattleboro Senior Center. The fourth Democrat in the race, Ethan Sonneborn, an eighth-grader from...
Bartleby's Books will host a book signing with Chris Diamond, author of “Ski Inc.,” and former president of Mount Snow on Monday, Dec. 12, at 4 p.m. “You can't make this stuff up” was a refrain Diamond heard regularly during his 44-year career in the ski-resort industry, when he guided major ski resorts from Vermont to Colorado and was intimately involved in the issues shaping the sport, according to a news release. The author, who holds English degrees from Middlebury...
For more than a century, our town has been a cutting-edge electricity producer for New England. This proud history has been dominated by two reliable, low-emission, affordable energy generators. In a plan that we call Re-Energizing Vernon, the Planning and Economic Development Commission is now drafting the third chapter: exploring the possibility of a multi-fuel, clean-energy, affordable micro-grid on the site of Vermont Yankee. Vernon has produced electricity since the late 1800s. The existing 32-megawatt Vernon dam began operating in...
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