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.
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...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. BRATTLEBORO-To the Brattleboro...
Howard Fairman, a native Vermonter, likes to study official public documents and presentations, research their...
When Vermont sent its first female representative to Washington this past year, it was in itself a historic moment. But U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., has become part of a greater, and more tragic history. She has found herself inside what she calls "a Republican Civil War." In the House, just days after mustering just enough votes for a last-minute 45-day funding bill that averted a shutdown of the federal government, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was ousted...
The Rich Earth Institute is hosting their 2022 Urine Donor Kick-Off at the Vermont Jazz Center on Saturday, April 9, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. They will be joined by prominent area-based poets to celebrate a decade of reclaiming urine as a resource in Vermont and beyond. The past year's most prolific donors will also be acknowledged as “Piss Off” contest winners. “After two years of pandemic separation, we're excited to host this event in person,” Rich Earth's executive director...
The voters' choice is always ours, at least for now. Simple math: Dummerston, Putney, Guilford, and Vernon have 100-percent direct voter participation in their schools, done by electing school board members and/or casting a ballot at Town Meeting. Changing school governance to a super board under Act 46 gives each of these towns one member per outlying town (Brattleboro has more) to a board of eight or so. The outlying towns would then have less than a 15-percent say in...
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