BRATTLEBORO — Whoever painted this graffiti on a rock in the West River estuary, please desist.
Haven't we already done enough to the Abenaki lands?
Painted rocks on the West River.
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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...
Money and opportunity have the Marlboro School community weighing whether to retain the present configuration of pre-K through grade 8 or to send the 13 seventh- and eighth-graders at the school to classes elsewhere. Currently, 85 students attend the school, which is part of the Windham Central Supervisory Union. High- school-age students have been attending various schools through school choice and, if it's decided to eliminate the seventh and eighth grades, those students will as well. The next community meeting...
Green Mountain Camp (GMC) is kicking off “Harness the Sun,” a campaign to purchase solar panels, with an outdoor music event on Sunday, May 15, rain or shine. The “Harness the Sun” campaign is committed to making GMC a green(er) mountain camp by purchasing 51 solar panels in a local solar array to cover 75 percent of the camp's annual electric needs. This is part of the ongoing efforts at Green Mountain Camp to lower its carbon and chemical input...
A note on process: In the interests of the reader, text has been edited for clarity and concision in a way that intended to preserve the participants' meaning, ideas, and fundamental self-expression. In the interest of readability, this is not a full transcript. We encourage readers interested in engaging with these issues to view the original Voices Live! forum video at brattleborotv.org. As always, we want this not to be the last word on any of these issues - just...
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