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Voices

Loss of an amazing person

By
Antoine Jordan
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 — Issue 333

BRATTLEBORO — Nick Widomski was a really amazing person, and everybody who knew him is going to miss him terribly.

Voices

An American birthday party

By
Anita Rafael

Anita Rafael is a Wardsboro writer whose work has appeared in myriad newspapers and magazines,

Civics can lead to something greater: virtue

By
Meg Mott

Meg Mott (megmott.com) is a professor emerita, former town moderator, and self-described Constitution Wrangler and...

Does Paul Revere belong in the Fourth of July parade?

By
Tim Stevenson

Tim Stevenson ([email protected]) is a community organizer with Post Oil Solutions. He is the author...

The case that redefined U.S. schools

By
Bill Holiday

Bill Holiday, a retired veteran social studies teacher of 48 years, believes in exposing students...

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Scott requests USDA disaster declaration for May freeze that caused heavy crop damage

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Sarah Mearhoff
Wednesday, June 28, 2023 — Issue 721

Citing “extensive and pervasive” damage to crops, Gov. Phil Scott is requesting that the U.S. Department of Agriculture issue a disaster declaration because temperatures plunged into the low 20s across Vermont for hours in mid-May, freezing vulnerable young buds on thousands of fruits. In a letter sent to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on June 19, Scott described the “debilitating damage” to crops of apples, grapes, blueberries, peaches and other stone fruit across the state. He asked that a...

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Film shines light on fourth graders and their quest for world peace

By
Nancy A. Olson
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 — Issue 579

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, education at all levels is in flux. In response, Epsilon Spires is sponsoring a film series focused on radical pedagogy. A communications center that seeks social impact through art and science, Epsilon Spires is hosting the series on alternative education models “to encourage discourse towards positive change.” “In our current times,” said Jamie Mohr, creative director, “when the instability and inequity of the systems and structures in place have become so apparent, and with children...

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Developer addresses ‘areas of persistent confusion’

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Elizabeth Bridgewater
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 — Issue 757

Elizabeth Bridgewater is executive director of the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust, whose Alice Holway Drive apartment project in Putney is the subject of a series of appeals and lawsuits against the town regarding the project's approval process. As the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust and its co-developer Evernorth continue to plan for breaking ground on the Alice Holway Drive Development that will create 25 new rental homes in Putney, a lot of questions have been circulating about the project.

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