BRATTLEBORO — I am so proud of what Ann Braden has done, and I have been honored to work with her on GunSense Vt. projects. I believe she will be an amazing senator when her time comes.
(Also, her successor is Clai Lasher-Sommers, not Lashman.)
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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After nine months as interim superintendent of the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU), Mark Speno has been named Superintendent for the 2022-23 school year. On June 1, the WSESU Board of Directors announced Speno's appointment for the coming school year. “The Board is looking forward to collaborating with Mr. Speno, expanding on his excellent work supporting students and staff and extending it into effective implementation of policies and continuous improvement,” said the brief press release. Following a short executive session...
In January and February, the Putney Public Library, 55 Main St., is displaying work by self-taught artist Jeffrey Reddick. Reddick's Putney connection comes through a 10-year correspondence with Gordon Hayward. In 1967, aged 16, Reddick and his five siblings experienced the violent death of their parents at their father's hand. In 1983, Reddick, by then an ex-Marine, was convicted for assault with a deadly weapon and has since been serving a life sentence at a medium security prison in North...
Bob DePino writes with great certainty, cloudy judgment, and misguided arrogance about what won't stop the next school shooting. He tells us that background checks, safe locking, raising the legal age, getting restraining orders, and everything else we might do in the future will be ineffective. Instead, he offers to arm teachers in Vermont - like me. Only someone whose views on gun reform are perverted would suggest that more guns in schools will keep our children safe. I'm sick...
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