BRATTLEBORO — We here at Harmony Underground see the problem hour by hour. People are afraid to come in the parking lot, and I don't blame them.
We would love to see a business watch, like a neighborhood watch. What can be done?
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...
Community House has added a high school at 80 Linden St. to its Community School House programs and Oak Street campus holdings. With the acquisition and renovation of the historic, newly renovated Deacon John Holbrook House, day students in grades 9-12 in the program now, for the first time, have a dedicated high school building. According to the organization's website, it provides a short-term residential stabilization and assessment program for children 6–12 years of age, an independent and general special-education...
On Thursday, Jan. 13, at 6:30 p.m., Shanta Lee Gander will present via Zoom, “Bearing Witness and Endurance of Voice: The Legacy of Lucy Terry Prince,” a program detailing the life story of Lucy Terry Prince, hosted by the Rockingham Free Public Library. Lucy Terry Prince was born in Africa, where she was kidnapped by slave traders and then transported to Rhode Island. While still enslaved in 1746, she wrote “Bars Fight,” the oldest known poem written by an African...
I just needed to give big, big shout-out to the Wilmington, Vermont caring community. I received a most generous holiday gift from the Deerfield Valley Lions with help from the Rotary Club of Deerfield Valley and the Readsboro Lions Club. Such generosity deserves recognition. It also does make we wonder why we can't all get along during these stressful times of corona/omicron and politics.
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