The only thing I don't believe, Susan Odegard, is that you are not an accomplished person. Wow - you have found beauty in yourself and the world and have articulated it so well.
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Django Grace describes himself as an environmentalist, skier, chiller, and lifelong Brattleborian. He graduated from...
Chloe Learey is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development...
WESTMINSTER WEST-My recent essay in The Commons revealed the unique position of Vermont as a...
Roger Allbee served as secretary of agriculture, farms, and markets for Vermont in the administration...
The five candidates for Windham County's state senate seats agree on many of the big issues facing Vermont. The differences rest in the details of their proposed solutions. The candidates met with voters and answered questions on Oct. 28 as part of a Citizens' Breakfast event at the Brattleboro Senior Center. Incumbent Democrats Becca Balint of Brattleboro and Jeannette White of Putney are running against independent David Schoales of Brattleboro and perennial Liberty Union Party candidates Aaron Diamondstone and Jerry...
PUTNEY-Brattleboro artist Ruth Shafer's soft sculpture show, "The Weight," will open at The Putney School on Friday, Jan. 10, and runs through March 1. There will be an opening reception at the Micheal S. Currier Center Gallery from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 10. "The Weight" features five fabric sculpture installations which explore the feminine body's place in the home, in art history, and in the ways the past becomes the future. By conflating the female form with furniture...
Mike Mrowicki has represented the Windham-4 district (Putney and Dummerston) in the Vermont House of Representatives since 2007. PUTNEY-For those experiencing sticker shock from viewing their property tax bills this year, you're not alone. I get it. Or, I got it, as our tax bill soared on a 1,000-square-foot house on 2 acres, 5 miles from town on a dirt road. My wife and I both work two jobs to keep food on the table and a roof overhead, and...
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