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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...
WHITINGHAM-Educator, fiber artist, and small-business owner Emily Carris Duncan, 41, is running unopposed in the Democratic primary for the Windham-6 House of Representatives seat that will be vacated by Tristan Roberts. The district includes Whitingham, Wilmington, and Halifax. Roberts, who did not run for re-election because his future wife is having a baby, will continue post-session Legislative work through the end of his term. He recruited Carris Duncan to be his successor. "As I've been getting to know Emily Carris...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day and what would have been Wangari Maathai's 80th birthday. Maathai was the founder of the Green Belt Movement, a reforestation program which planted millions of trees in Kenya. She was also a friend to Brattleboro, having planted trees at both Oak Grove School and Guilford Community Church. Her life was a series of firsts: the first woman to gain a Ph.D. in East and Central Africa; the first female...
Vermont Fish and Wildlife says the deer population is too large, and so they will issue more muzzle-loader licenses this year. Good, I get it. Too many deer means both an increase in Lyme disease and over-browsing of young trees, which damages the forests. Now, to meet that same logical objective, how about stopping the wanton slaughter of coyotes? The forests are out of balance not because we issue too few hunting licenses, but because we have killed off all...
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