Great article about Lester Dunklee, my dad!
It's all true. Yes, the Whetstone flood was severe - thanks to all who helped my dad and other businesses and people who were impacted.
Retirement...what's that? Is that like refurbishing your tires?
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
The town has pledged that, within five years, it will have reduced carbon emissions within its borders by 26 percent of 2005 levels. The Selectboard voted unanimously to adopt the carbon emission goals proposed by the Town Energy Committee. The committee has proposed that carbon emissions be cut by 40 percent of the town's 1990 levels by 2030 and further cut by 80 percent of the town's 1990 levels by 2050. The aim of reducing carbon emissions is to slow...
Postponed due to positive COVID cases among the cast and crew, the Vermont Theater Company (VTC) rescheduled the remaining performances of Rathmines Road at the Hooker-Dunham Theater to May 13 through 15 and May 20 through 22, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m. “Everyone is doing okay, and we are very grateful to vaccines for keeping us safe,” the VTC said in a news release. “We are pleased to be able to share this production after...
On Nov. 5, I attended an informational meeting at the Marlboro Community Center run by Brian Mooney, director of Potash Hill, the subsidiary of Marlboro Music Festival in charge of renting out the campus. I was very impressed by his understanding of the values held by various stakeholder groups that have overlapping histories and are affected by what will happen there: alumni and others who cared about the college, the music festival, and the town, region, staff, etc. I see...
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