BRATTLEBORO — Lester Dunklee is the best! I go in with some pretty random requests and projects. I have yet to stump him.
Sometimes it takes a minute, but that light bulb above his head always lights.
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...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
He came to the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce (BACC) between theater gigs, but for Greg Lesch, that association has become a calling. And that service has resulted in Lesch's being asked to serve as the permanent executive director after serving in an interim capacity since the resignation of Kate O'Connor in December. “In the 18 years that Greg has been at the Chamber, he has demonstrated exceptional commitment and dedication, and his great work ethic, knowledge, and experience will...
Be perfectly honest: How much do you really know about Gandhi or Benjamin Franklin or Galileo? Or for that matter, what's the lowdown on Queen Elizabeth or Joan of Arc or Madame Curie? To help the whole family learn more about such historical figures, Richard Korson recently created and produced a new comedy series, The Who Was? Show, which premiered on Netflix streaming network in May. “It's a super cool project teaching kids about famous historical figures with lots of...
As Putney Friends Meeting gathered this month, we reconsidered our witness regarding racism. The Meeting reaffirmed the following Minute from New England Yearly Meeting of Friends from 2003 “to becoming an open, affirming, anti-racist Religious Society”: “Our understanding of racism is that it is a system that accords advantage or disadvantage based on racial identity. Racism is fundamentally inconsistent with the divine guidance that has led our Religious Society to testimonies such as Equality, Peace, and Community. “We seek divine...
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