VERNON — In our world today, there is not enough water for everyone because some people are polluting water and others are taking water for themselves to sell it in bottles.
No one should own the water. It should be free for everybody.
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...
Michael Pieciak, who won his race for state treasurer by visiting every town in the state, is settling nicely into his new job. He has his staff settled in and ready to go. But he's already feeling pressure. Put it down to the environment. Vermont takes climate change very seriously, and there are many state-wide organizations fighting to make the state greener than green. These include the Vermont chapter of the Sierra Club, the Vermont Natural Resources Council, the Vermont...
Choreographers Michael Bodel from Putney and Audrée Juteau from Montréal will have overlapping residencies at Vermont Performance Lab this August as part of VPL's SEED Program, a new initiative that supports regional dance makers with fees and residencies at VPL and Studio 303 in Montréal. Bodel and Juteau are developing dance works that will be presented in a shared evening as part of VPL's In The Works series on Saturday, Aug. 13, at 7 p.m., in the Arts Barn at...
I came within inches of stepping in a steel-jaw leghold trap while hiking along an established trail on state land. While I would have suffered a lot of pain and significant injury had it crushed my foot, the fact that I was hiking with my dogs and grandchildren elevated my concern to another level and led me to give this issue a critical review. As demonstrated by my experience, these traps are entirely indiscriminate, maiming and often killing animals, wild...
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