WILMINGTON — Maybe try walking, since you can't drive safely (so you say). And slow the hell down if you can't stop. Genius.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
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Good day to you, residents of the windy hamlet in southeastern Vermont! I hope we're all enjoying this healthy dose of rain, because we sure need it. Granted, the drought is worse where I reside down in western Massachusetts, but we're all hurting for more rain, so luckily we've got some to put a light dent in the drought. As far as our sensible weather is concerned for Wednesday, another low pressure system will push east-northeast into the Ohio Valley...
On Saturday, Sept. 23, Wardsboro Curtain Call presents a dance and concert with The Barnstormerz. Marvin Bentley (South Wardsboro) and Ned Phoenix (Townshend) play their original songs and tunes. Their fiddle, guitars, piano, organ, harmonica, and vocals groove in a variety of musical styles through a blues filter. They will feature Marvin's songs about Vermont and Ned's extraordinary improvised fiddling. The Barnstormerz will play two sets of music for free-form dancing. Their original dance music includes country, blues, swing, boogie-woogie,
Susie Webster-Toleno: I can't stop thinking about the scenes from Charlottesville. I'm so angry that the ugliness on display is still a thing, and yet feel so helpless about it. I hear (“well-meaning”) white liberals expressing ire but also saying, “but, of course, free speech.” I simply can't imagine how that sounds to people of color and Muslim and Jewish folks and LGBTQI-etc. friends and neighbors. Yes, free speech. But I have the ability to emphasize that point precisely because...
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