Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
BRATTLEBORO-For the Brattleboro voters, the March 4 ballot is about more than just a symbolic...
PUTNEY-My name is Bex Slattery, and I am running for Selectboard in Putney. I am...
Sarah R. Ellis is a writer, disability advocate, and former teen librarian who grew up...
-For political races both nationally and throughout the state, many of the outcomes of Tuesday's election were far from surprising, with almost 69% of exactly 26,000 voters in the left-leaning region backing the Kamala Harris/Tim Walz Democratic Party ticket. Harris and Walz won Vermont's Electoral College votes in a race that nationally, at press time early Wednesday morning, appeared destined to go to their Republican Party opponents, Donald Trump and JD Vance. Incumbents Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent, and Democrat...
Arguably, our large brains make human beings the most intelligent species on Earth. Yet only now are we coming around to a full scientific, and perhaps even spiritual, appreciation of the deep and interconnected relationship we have with the natural world. As we learn from Peter Wohlleben's 2016 book The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate-Discoveries from a Secret World, trees are actually smart! And not only do they play an invaluable role in maintaining the...
Twilight Music begins its 12th annual Twilight On The Tavern Lawn series of folk, world beat, rock, jazz, zydeco, Celtic, swing, blues and bluegrass summer concerts on Sunday, June 1 with Simba. Simba features blazing horns and scorching percussion on a highly danceable mix of funk, Latin, reggae, world beat, soca calypso, ska, jazz and blues. The eight-member band has been together 25 years and includes Charlie Schneeweis, Wim Auer, Steve Sonntag, Derrik Jordan, Dan DeWalt, Johnny Yuma, Steve Leicach...
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