PUTNEY — Vermont Senate candidate for Windham County Tim Wessel avoided primary-election campaigning and spending by running in the general election as “independent.”
If elected, will he caucus in Montpelier with Democrats? Progressives? Republicans?
Let's ask him. We Windham County voters have the right to know with which party Tim Wessel will caucus before we vote for him.
Leslie Zucker is a certified professional life coach, a facilitator of a women's group, and...
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block,
Kerry Secrest serves as honorary consul of Lithuania to Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-A heartfelt thank you to...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes...
In 2017, after searching for three decades, a master diver rediscovered a documented but long-lost Indigenous relic in the cove at the confluence of the Connecticut and West rivers. These petroglyphs - etched carvings in rock, made by Indigenous peoples thousands of years ago - have been submerged for a century, under water displaced by alterations to the river's flow from hydroelectric power stations upstream. Now, the Atowi Project - a two-year-old nonprofit that is reclaiming and revitalizing the area's...
The ongoing saga of George Santos feels like a complete rerun of the Trump show, highlighting another completely unqualified and morally bankrupt candidate who has become a face of the Republican Party. The most interesting part of the Santos saga is not the abject failure of the Democratic Party to vet this scoundrel, not the inability of the local Republicans to see through his sorry tale, but the fact that he has succeeded in being seated and will probably remain...
“The Moment After,” a series of recent landscape watercolors by Finn Campman, is on exhibit at the Putney Public Library through Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. The exhibit shows Campman's detailed, intimate, and luminous watercolors of landscapes in Putney and surrounding areas. “There are certain cherished moments when I am offered the possibility of simply letting the world 'settle,' on my senses,” Campman said in a news release. “Discernment is unnecessary, for only in the state of simple openness can this...
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