BELLOWS FALLS-Founded in 1995, Parks Place Community Resource Center is celebrating its 30th anniversary still...
MANCHESTER-The Vermont-based fly-fishing company Orvis is now facing pressures "at a pace that we haven't...
BRATTLEBORO-Representative Town Meeting members met in a special session on May 27 and approved a...
BRATTLEBORO-Great-great-grandmother Shirley Squires is also a great, great fundraiser. The 94-year-old Guilford resident arrived at...
While the candidates outnumbered the members of the public, those who did come to the Green Mountain Chapel on Oct. 17 got to take part in a sort of open mic night for democracy. Seventeen candidates from across the political spectrum came to the event, which was organized by Pastor Bill Steele of Green Mountain Chapel and Richard “Rick” Morton, chair of the Windham County Republicans. Each person got four minutes to speak their piece. Steele admitted he was nervous...
BRATTLEBORO-St. Michael's Episcopal Church Rector the Rev. Mary Lindquist recently announced that the St. Michael's Choir School, which its previous music director, Susan Dedell, started in 2014 and ran until the pandemic, is coming back this fall, although with a new name and new focus. "This children's choral program sponsored by St. Michael's, now named Beloved Community Youth Choir, aims to develop both social and musical skills in youth by using music to instill the practices of Rev. Martin Luther...
Scapegoating is a tactic used in small and large systems - families, communities, nations - to place all of the blame for a problem onto one person or group of people. It's used by those in power to avoid accountability or prevent a more nuanced analysis of a difficult situation, or both. The scapegoat is almost always a person with less power, or no power at all, because it's easy to pick on someone who is already down. They're less...
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