Love the article. I've known Lester Dunklee for years and always had a great respect for him - you couldn't find a nicer person!
A great machinist, too - very innovative!
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...
BRATTLEBORO-Most matriarchs observe Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May. But Guilford great-great-grandmother Shirley Squires has reason to wait until the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont's annual Walk for Life fundraiser later this month. The 94-year-old didn't know much about the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) when it struck her son, former state Rep. Ronald Squires, D-Guilford, some four decades ago. The lawmaker was the first in the Vermont Legislature to announce his homosexuality,
DUMMERSTON-Vermont Theatre Company (VTC) has released the lineup and casts for its production of one act plays at the Evening Star Grange in Dummerston Center, Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 21–24. VTC Artistic Director Jessica Iris (Gelter) says she has brought together four directors to work in a peer-support cohort to learn, share ideas, advice, and passions with each other while bringing four plays to life. Casey Parles will direct Emotional Baggage by Lindsay Price, an exploration of the feelings we...
I was late to news of the submersible. And even later to write about it. Words felt too painful, like a trespass on tragedy. But to ignore the words written by others, especially those who mocked the lives needing oxygen, seemed an even greater disregard of our shared humanity. My own grief, however, isn't without question. What of the small boats filled with families, all those tilting, sinking vessels left floundering off coastlines, denied entry by laws and leaders and...
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