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...
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By the new year, you can expect more ways to pay for parking downtown. It will also cost you more. A complete overhaul of the town's parking system will involve replacing 196 parking meters and installing 15 new kiosks. A parking discussion at the Aug. 7 regular Selectboard meeting that lasted well over an hour resulted in four motions. All advanced the proposal to replace the town's meters and pay-and-display machines with “smart meters” and kiosks that will accept coins,
Even the best things must one day come to an end. So it is as Ines Zeller Bass presents her final performances ever of her children-friendly classic of puppet theater, Isidor's Cheek. Recently, Zeller Bass has been slowing her own performances in the theater pieces for children she created for Sandglass Theater. “About two years ago, I pulled back from my heavy involvement with Sandglass,” says Zeller Bass. “I have been teaching all my puppet theater pieces to my children...
The end of each legislative session is the appropriate time for increased scrutiny on what the Legislature has and has not accomplished. Given that the focus is predictably on major priority bills, I see the end of session as a time to talk about other successes that deserve attention but are often overlooked. I serve on the House Committee on General, Housing, and Military Affairs, where we worked on the paid family and medical leave legislation, as well as the...
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