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...
Hello and good day to you, residents of lovely Windham County, Vermont! I hope things are well with you. We've got an abundance of fair weather on the way for the next seven days. We'll start off on the cooler side with patchy frost potential late Wednesday night into Thursday morning. Thereafter, we will slowly begin to warm up such that by late in the weekend we could crest the 80 degree mark. Humidity will be on the rise as...
The Rich Earth Institute is hosting their 2022 Urine Donor Kick-Off at the Vermont Jazz Center on Saturday, April 9, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. They will be joined by prominent area-based poets to celebrate a decade of reclaiming urine as a resource in Vermont and beyond. The past year's most prolific donors will also be acknowledged as “Piss Off” contest winners. “After two years of pandemic separation, we're excited to host this event in person,” Rich Earth's executive director...
For four decades, schools and schoolchildren in Windham County benefited from having a major electric power producer, Vermont Yankee, right in their own backyard. Despite the plant's closure, it is encouraging to see that, via the Vermont Clean Energy Development Fund (VCEDF), the plant's owner continues to deliver benefits to the local community. Fortunately for local schools and for Vermont's forestry and renewable-power economy, a multi-million-dollar commitment by Vermont Yankee to the VCEDF has helped fund the installation of new...
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