Elayne Clift (a Hillary lover) is outraged that President Trump is against unborn children being murdered. She calls his pro-life position “downright mean.”
No, Elayne, you're the one who's downright mean!
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...
In years past, Memorial Day weekend has been a bustling place and marks the start to summer for downtown restaurants, according to Tim Brady, a co-owner of Whetstone Brewery. The restaurant, on the Connecticut River, is following Vermont Gov. Phil Scott's guidance with its reopening strategy. Scott announced on May 22 that restaurants and bars could open in a limited fashion for outdoor dining. Yet multiple area restaurants are not doing so. The Whetstone is limiting dine-in customers to 50,
The annual High School A Cappella Concert is set to take the stage at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 2. More than 55 local teens representing six regional high school a cappella ensembles “will sing their hearts out to the delight of an enthusiastic audience of family, friends, and lovers of a great time,” according to a news release. Created by local artist and community cultural entrepreneur Dede Cummings, the High School A...
What made me go to Texas? Last spring, the news filtered in that a U.S. representative from El Paso named Robert Francis O'Rourke, nicknamed Beto (Bet-toe), was challenging Ted Cruz for a Senate seat held by Republicans since the early 1990s. Cruz was considered a lock at the time, and Texas opinion writers gave Beto no chance. Texas was flat-out red. Then came a turning point. At an August Town Hall meeting, Beto took a question from someone offended that...
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