VERNON — In the end, it is the patients who suffer.
The Brattleboro Retreat is needed in this community. Clearly, something is not going well there, and I hope the facility can be turned around quickly before it is forced to close its doors.
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...
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-Vermont's landmark education bill, recently signed into law, queues up some big changes to the state's education system in the months and years to come. But one immediate impact is the bill's effect on private schools, called "independent schools" under Vermont law. Those changes, which went into effect on July 1 - the same day Gov. Phil Scott signed Act 73 into law - have left some independent schools and advocates uncertain and others reeling. Under the new law, private...
Roots on the River Festival, produced by Vermont Festivals LLC, will celebrate its 19th year on Friday, June 8, at 3 p.m. when the gates open on a full weekend of music. “It's an enviable record for any all-volunteer event,” promoter Ray Massucco said. The festival has announced that this year's nonprofit beneficiary of the festival is the Bellows Falls Fire Department, members of which will also be on hand as volunteers throughout the weekend. “We are proud to recognize...
When, in 1963, I was kicked out of Emerson College at the end of my second year (don't ask), I moved home to live with my family in Far Rockaway, N.Y. and landed at Brooklyn College. It was then free to New York residents, and my parents wouldn't pay for another high-priced school out of which I could be kicked. Jerry Marcel was the star of the theater department at Brooklyn College, and justifiably so. He was a gifted artist...
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