ATHENS — As I was doing my annual Route 35 Green Up beat, I got to thinking.
The writer says he feels like a “sap.” For me, I'm going with “chump.”
It seems real easy for me to connect the dots between drinking/driving and beer cans on the side of the road.
Shouldn't our neighbors who have been dinged with a DUI be doing this work? I am not sure we've got the right people cleaning up on the first Saturday in May.
Leslie Zucker is a certified professional life coach, a facilitator of a women's group, and...
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block,
Kerry Secrest serves as honorary consul of Lithuania to Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-A heartfelt thank you to...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes...
Officials with the Town Manager's office and the Department of Public Works proposed an increase for the water and sewer rates for Fiscal Year 2019. These increases - 6 percent for sewer and 2 percent for water - will end a five-year cycle of the same raises and is covered by an ordinance the Selectboard approved in 2014. This proposal came during the FY19 utility fund budget talks at the May 1 regular Selectboard meeting. The Board will continue the...
I'm here in my kitchen baking gluten-free goodies for this week's farmers' market. I use homegrown garden squash, eggs from our neighbors, and raw milk from a goat we co-own with the market manager - a sweet little Nigerian named Molasses (the goat, not the manager. The manager is a sweet little Floridian named Donica.) WRSI keeps me company while I cook. Joan Holliday flirts with Storm Team Meteorologist Brian Lapis. It's just another day. Based on these activities, one...
Unlike any other American film festivals, the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival not only awards its winner a coveted prize, but provides them with a tour to show their works at prestigious venues across New England. Festival organizers say they're strongly committed to raising the profile of its winning filmmakers after the annual August event concludes. The New England Tour is the direct fulfillment of this commitment. “At all other film festivals, you win a prize and that's that,” says filmmaker...
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