Excellent article, thanks! Do you think Hillary Clinton asked Patrick Leahy to be vice president or secretary of state?
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...
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Roger Allbee served as secretary of agriculture, farms, and markets for Vermont in the administration...
When snowstorms are coming, folks in Windham County go shopping for food and supplies. Last Monday, March 23, was no different in that respect: Hannaford that morning was crowded, as it usually would be. But there was a difference this time. Amid a global pandemic caused by a new and highly contagious coronavirus, many of the shoppers wore face masks, and some of the shelves - pasta, paper goods - were almost bare. People tried to keep their distances, but...
A documentary film will take viewers into the daily lives of a Buddhist community in France, followed by a discussion with two former monastics who lived and practiced there. A 2017 British film, Walk With Me, explores three years in the monastic life within Plum Village Buddhist Community, described on its website as Europe's largest Buddhist monastery. More than 200 monks practice the art of mindfulness there, welcoming thousands of meditation practitioners from around the world for visits and retreats.
We were saddened as individuals and as a group to see that the image of a swastika was used to disrupt a recent Democratic candidates' forum for lieutenant governor. Just as we know that one Zoom-bombing will not prevent reasonable people from continuing to publicly engage in the democratic process, we also know that symbols of hate, anti-Semitism, and white supremacy do not represent the views held by the majority of Vermonters. Our organization, the Vermont Holocaust Memorial (VTHM), is...
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