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.
Elayne Clift (elayne-clift.com) has written this column about women, politics, and social issues for almost...
The Northwest Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) is a coalition of 14 Quaker congregations in...
This letter was submitted on behalf of Spark faculty. PUTNEY-We, the faculty of the Spark...
Matt Dorsey serves on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He delivered this memoriam to...
PUTNEY-What began as a quiet public notice and a series of poorly attended public meetings about a new ordinance to charge residents and visitors for fire and emergency services could end with the Selectboard reversing the decision. Although the board has adopted the new ordinance, which gives it the authority to bill for emergency services, including fire department calls, Town Manager Karen Astley confirmed that the topic is on the agenda for the Wednesday, July 23 Selectboard meeting, and believes...
PUTNEY-The Putney Public Library Writers Salon is a Zoom series that brings writers across the country together with an enthusiastic audience online at tinyurl.com/yck6n8dc. The session on Wednesday, Jan. 15, at 6:30 p.m. will feature readings by Claudia Putnam, Ivy Schweitzer, and David W. Berner. Putnam grew up in New England, lived a few decades in Colorado, then joined her adult son in the Pacific Northwest. A sense of place is critical in all of her poems, essays and stories,
Vermont's state seal is the only one in the country that recognizes dairy. Plows appear on 13 and sheaves of wheat on nine, but Vermont stands alone in its recognition of the dairy industry. But what is happening in our dairy sector today is well-documented: the declining consumption of fluid milk, the dependence on export markets for better pricing, the westward movement of production, the consolidation of and increase in size of farms, the decline in the number of milk-product...
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