I thought Vermont had more sense than this. We, the people of the 17 towns of southern New Hampshire, have fought the Kinder Morgan pipeline and do not want it in our state.
What is wrong with the so-called “green state”?
Fric Spruyt is a property owner and property manager in Brattleboro and a member of...
BRATTLEBORO-The recent eclipse that Vermonters were able to experience was beyond breathtaking. My husband and...
PUTNEY-As a physician and a hospice volunteer, I read with interest the recent article highlighting...
BELLOWS FALLS-I see as a huge problem the number of apartments and houses being used...
Good day to you, denizens of the verdant lands of Windham County! The upcoming week is looking pretty good in terms of fair and pleasant weather, with a slight warming trend expected. With respect to the U.S. Drought Monitor, we're experiencing some dry conditions in the town of Vernon as well as neighboring Cheshire County in southwest New Hampshire. The best chance for rain to help mitigate such aridity would be Saturday evening into the first half of Sunday, when...
Dad is buckled into the passenger seat next to me, a frayed Navy veteran cap pulled down low over his forehead, his ample belly straining against the seat belt. As I drive him slowly around Martha's Vineyard Island, one hand clutches his inhaler and the other, his empty brown wallet. This is our daily ritual. We meander down country lanes bordered by moss-covered stone walls, through canopies of pin oaks and sycamores. Our destination, the sea, with its flashing whitecaps,
Set in North Haven, a fictional Vermont community with its gallery of locals, eccentrics, and survivors, probably recognizable to residents in the know, the characters in Mimi Morton's posthumously released collection of short stories, Life List, written over a period of 12 years, become as indelibly imprinted in the imaginations of the book's readers as, say, those living in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. One thing that often makes a short story no more than a minor accomplishment is, paradoxically, its...
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