What a lovely piece! It's so hard to make such a huge sacrifice, even when we know it's the best and right thing to do.
Tristan Roberts ([email protected]) is a former state representative, a small-scale farmer, and a writer who...
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As opposed to some recent years, where the Selectboard has had to make tough decisions when putting together the next fiscal year's budget, the process so far for the Fiscal Year 2019 municipal budget has been relatively smooth sailing. A three-hour budget workshop Dec. 2 with the Selectboard and town department heads saw no big surprises or contentious debates. Longer conversations mostly came from newer Board members asking procedural questions. One topic that kept coming up was what time Santa...
River Gallery School has been selected to design and create the 2016 ornaments for Vermont in the 2016 “America Celebrates: Ornaments from Across the USA” display. The event is presented by the National Park Foundation and the National Park Service. Each state and territory has been invited to produce 12 ornaments to be hung on its state's tree as part of the America Celebrates Display on the Ellipse in President's Park national park in Washington, D.C. The official lighting of...
Lisa Ford has operated a vacation rental in Guilford for 11 years. In 2019, she organized a statewide Short Term Rental Summit; the first of its kind, it led to the creation of the Vermont Short-Term Rental Alliance, a member-based nonprofit association for vacation rental managers and short-term rental hosts operating in the state. GUILFORD-Short-term rental owners are not the evil housing tycoons we are sometimes made out to be. Vacation rentals peppered around our state make up just 2.5%
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