BROOKLINE — A measure of a man is how he treats others.
It's nice to see the attention paid to the students and the respect to the teacher. We need more of this! Go Bernie!
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The three lawmakers (one a gubernatorial hopeful) stood in the Flood Brook Union School on Monday night before a full house of taxpayers, educators, and parents. The evening's topic and everyone's favorite frustration: education tax and reform. The three state representatives braced for an angry crowd. What Shap Smith, Dave Sharpe, and Oliver Olsen got were a lot of questions. The main question was a perennial: How much local control do communities really have over their school budgets? The lawmakers'
Last year, Protect Our Wildlife (POW) launched a statewide Living With Wildlife campaign to help towns pursue nonlethal methods to address human/wildlife conflicts. In Vermont, countless wild animals, including beavers, foxes, raccoons, and others, are killed under a dangerously vague statute that allows landowners and municipalities to kill wildlife that's merely suspected to cause damage to property. No reporting is required, so our state's own Fish and Wildlife Department has little to no data on how many animals are killed.
On Thursday, June 28, at 11 a.m., the Putney Public Library, 55 Main St., will kick off the youth Summer Reading Program with a puppet and music show for all ages by Modern Times Theater. Modern Times Theater founders Rose Friedman and Justin Lander create handmade wooden and papier-mâché puppets for a modern Vermont update of the age-old Punch and Judy puppet shows, which follow the troubles and travails of puppetry's favorite loudmouth, Mr. Punch. The program features live music,
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