WARDSBORO — Howard Fairman, you sound like a bitter skier talking about snowboarders when the mountains started letting “those kind” on the slopes.
Don't you believe in diversity on the trails?
“Oasis” means different things to different people.
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 the age of 95, Janice Martin is spryer than many others half her years and has a memory like a steel trap. “In September 1932, at the age of 6, I started school in the one-room schoolhouse called the South School, located in Vernon, Vermont,” she says. “It's still there and is now the home of the Vernon Historical Society,” remembers Martin. “I had my picture taken by the old wood stove in 2015.” The former Janice Pratt was...
Beginning at sundown on Friday, June 4, Epsilon Spires will project the Finnish film Tove (2020) in the parking lot of the historic First Baptist Church building at 190 Main St. This Covid-safe event, which takes place at the end of Gallery Walk, will feature refreshments by Madame Jo's crêperie from Trollhaugen Farm in Newfane, and an introductory presentation by Jo Dery, associate professor of film studies at Keene State College. The first in a series of weekly film screenings...
Some silences can be very loud. I worked on the Navajo (Diné) Nation in Arizona from 1999 until 2006, before I moved back to Vermont. During that time, I worked as a counselor at the Little Singer Community School, which served students in preschool to eighth grade. The Diné people tend to be quiet and very understated. Observing the children, I experienced some deeply moving expressions of compassion, which led me to an understanding of how many such acts, brought...
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