Excellent article, thanks! Do you think Hillary Clinton asked Patrick Leahy to be vice president or secretary of state?
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
As a national dialogue rages about a higher minimum wage, a small-town Vermont restaurant recently announced its new mission: to ensure that every one of its employees earns at least $15 per hour. In 2012, according to a news release, Friends of Bellows Falls decided the town needed a restaurant. The village's only full-service eatery had burned down a few years earlier. Meanwhile, a historic building in The Square - the former Hotel Windham - was sitting mostly unused. The...
Grab a lunch and settle in to hear writers who are also your friends and neighbors read from their recently published books, at a Zoom Spotlight Reading on Saturday, Oct. 17, from noon until 1:15 p.m. Six local poets and writers will read a 10-minute sampling of their work and take questions. This event is hosted by Epsilon Spires and emceed by Andy Burrows, poet and co-proprietor of Prolingua Associates. Readers include Toni Ortner, reading from Daybook lll, a collection...
The reason kids don't listen to adults is because they spout off statistics that are completely false, like this one: “Prior to the 1980s, the potency of THC in most marijuana hovered around 1.37 percent. Now, potency of THC is almost 30 percent,” a quote attributed to Hanako Jones. First off, yes, the quality and potency of pot has increased a lot, mainly due to the fact that it isn't being smuggled in from cartels in Colombia anymore; since the...
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