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...
The Aug. 14 meeting in Putney came after news hit the Facebook-sphere that multiple downtown businesses had decided to close or relocate, including Ruggles & Hunt, Candle in the Night, Windham Movement Apparel, Walking with Wolves, Traveling Treasures, ArtRAGEus1, and Twin Flames Taqueria. Speculation around the closings has ranged from the downtown rents being too high, to shop owners catering to tourists and discounting the needs of local consumers, to people not having enough disposable income. In reality, the stores...
On Friday, April 1, at 5 p.m., Epsilon Spires will present PASSAGES, an exhibit of artwork by sculptor and installation artist Lydia Kern. The opening celebration will include a performance by the band Fievel is Glauque, and Vermont Organist of the Year Jenny Bower will play selected works at the closing reception on Saturday, June 25. Kern said in a news release that the work she will show at Epsilon Spires “is influenced by meditations on love and grief, mysticism,
The town of Halifax recently hosted COVID-19 vaccination clinics and ice cream socials. There are many people - and one dog - to thank for these very successful events. Selectboard Member Pete Silverberg proposed the clinics, and all board members approved. The kind and professional crews of Rescue Inc. brought their medical trailer and answered myriad questions and assuaged concerns about vaccine testing and safety. Joan Coarser and Laurel Copeland scooped the free ice cream provided by the Halifax Community...
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