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I am hopeful for change. I pray we can all be kinder to each other in the midst of these revelations.
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...
At its May 26 meeting, the Selectboard reaffirmed and slightly modified its emergency order requiring that face coverings be worn by all employees, customers, and visitors in any store, office, or other indoor setting where business is conducted. The modification now says that children under 5 “are not required” to wear face coverings, clarifying the original order, which stated that masks “should not be placed on” children under 5. The remainder of the order is unchanged, and it continues to...
U.S. sanctions have blocked the Venezuelan people from obtaining food and medicine. These sanctions resulted in at least 40,000 deaths between mid-2017 and the end of 2018, according to a study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research - and that was prior to the most severe sanctions, announced in January 2019. What exactly is happening in Venezuela? What can be done? Those questions will be addressed during the Vermont premiere of a new documentary film, Venezuelans Under Siege,
Chloe Learey, a speaker on the panel at the Voices Live forum, is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development in Brattleboro. She serves as the steering committee chair of the Vermont Early Childhood Advocacy Alliance, as well as on the boards of the Vermont Community Loan Fund and Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. BRATTLEBORO-The recent "Voices Live: A Conversation on Homelessness" at the Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro could have taken place in any town in...
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