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...
The Aug. 14 meeting in Putney came after news hit the Facebook-sphere that multiple downtown businesses had decided to close or relocate, including Ruggles & Hunt, Candle in the Night, Windham Movement Apparel, Walking with Wolves, Traveling Treasures, ArtRAGEus1, and Twin Flames Taqueria. Speculation around the closings has ranged from the downtown rents being too high, to shop owners catering to tourists and discounting the needs of local consumers, to people not having enough disposable income. In reality, the stores...
BRATTLEBORO-Vermont Suitcase Company (VSC) players know how to get folks laughing - belly laughs, slapstick laughs, laughs at poignant ironies, at itchy truths, at innocent manifestations of good-heartedness. Following the success of 2023's popular VSC play about Wenceslas, the 10th-century Duke of Bohemia whose kind and generous spirit made him worthy of his own Christmas carol, the company presents The Continuing Adventures of King Wenceslas and His Page, Edith: A Winter Tale for Winter People, with performances throughout the region...
Tristan Roberts represents the Windham-6 district in the Vermont House of Representatives, where he has served on the House Corrections and Institutions committee. HALIFAX-Dear friends, Like you, I love my family and I love being a Vermonter. The greatest privilege of serving you as state representative for the past two years has been the opportunity to love my neighbors in three towns by offering you the strongest possible representation in the Legislature. I'm proud to have served my neighbors in...
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