Wow, thanks for dismissing Jill Stein.
The populist movement doesn't have to wait to move forward - Jill Stein is a candidate. Thanks for ignoring her. Why did you even bother to mention her name?
Charles F. Monette is a poet, teacher, playwright, artist, actor, builder, and U.S. Army veteran.
Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. WESTMINSTER-Democrats in the state Legislature scored some...
Fric Spruyt represents District 9 in Brattleboro's Representative Town Meeting. BRATTLEBORO-At the July 8 Brattleboro...
Jim Freedman is a leadership consultant and the author of Becoming a Leader: Identity, Influence,
The Selectboard has approved a new emergency program aimed at supporting local businesses during the time of COVID-19. The Commercial Emergency Assistance Program provides funding for Dover-based businesses hit by closures or other implications of the global pandemic. Using money from taxes collected through the 1 percent local option sales tax, the program grants up to $1,000 a month to qualifying businesses. During its first videoconference public meeting on March 24, the Selectboard allocated $100,000, a “starting point” amount that...
A new exhibit by Sandy Klein,"Expressions of Repose: the soft retirement of a character maker," opens on Friday, Nov. 3, from 5 to 8 p.m., at the Harmony Collective, 49 Elliot St. Klein says she has been making dolls for as long as she can remember. As a child, she made yarn and corn dolls, wrapping and folding natural fibers into figures. In her teens she began to sew, making flat but "very groovy stuffed animals," she says. In her...
I find several reasons to take issue with Kurt Daims's piece. I question both its premises and its conclusions. Specifically, the idea that one should adopt a 224-page report and its 41 recommendations without examining the details included within, how the information was gathered, and each recommendation individually is clearly incorrect. The Community Safety Review Committee and its two facilitators did a tremendous amount of work in a short period of time, and their work deserves a close look, not...
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