BROOKLINE — Thank you, Becca Balint, for sharing your grandfather's words. It is beyond sad that such a kind, thoughtful man was murdered in Austria years ago, yet this hateful energy is still alive today.
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...
Nearly a third of registered Vermont voters have already cast their ballot in this year's Nov. 5 general election, according to data released Oct. 28 by the Vermont Secretary of State's Office. Of the more than 450,000 ballots mailed to registered voters in recent weeks, 31% have been returned - either by mail or in person to municipal clerks - the office said. That's a slight uptick compared to 2022, when 27% of ballots had been returned a week out...
Wyld Nightz, a local classic rock band, will play at the Stone Church in Brattleboro on Friday, Jan. 3, at 8 p.m. Admission is $10 at the door and the band will donate all its proceeds to Brigid's Kitchen and Pantry, which has served over 20,000 free meals this year in downtown Brattleboro. Wyld Nightz is a six-piece band founded in 1999 by Jeff Brewer and Michael McKinney, according to a news release. Prior to that, Brewer, now lead singer...
When the voters of Wilmington and Whitingham voted to create the Twin Valley Joint Contract schools, they had no inkling that 15 years later the budget that supports those schools at the town meetings just completed would require enormous property-tax-rate increases, even though total spending was decreased by more than $200,000 over the prior year. Whitingham will see a tax-rate increase of an estimated 34 cents, and Wilmington taxpayers will have an increased tax rate estimated to be 22 cents.
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