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...
Joe Famolare was a colorful guy who lived a colorful life. Famolare, who died on July 11 at age 82, started working in his father's shoe manufacturing business when he was 12. Then, as a shoe designer, pattern-maker, and executive himself, he took his talents to a higher level. For Capezio, Inc., for example, he designed the dance shoes for the original Broadway production of “West Side Story.” He also designed ballet shoes for the Bolshoi Ballet and footwear for...
BELLOWS FALLS-The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC), in partnership with Rockingham Arts & Museum Project (RAMP), will host a panel discussion about the past, present, and future of the Bellows Falls "island" on Saturday, Jan. 25, at 1 p.m., at the Bellows Falls Waypoint Center, 17 Depot St. RAMP founder Robert McBride will moderate the discussion, which will include geologist David Howell, archeologist Gail Golec, architect Dan Scully, artist Charlie Hunter, and photographer Susan Mikula. The inspiration for the...
As a concerned taxpayer in Rockingham, I am writing in response to “Contract negotiations not about devaluing education” [Letters, March 7], which contained erroneous and biased information surrounding the current Windham Northeast Supervisory Union (WNESU) teacher contract difficulties. To make matters worse, it was signed “WNESU Negotiating Committee, Bellows Falls,” and yet none of the authors was even present for the last meeting of the Negotiating Committee for the Windham Northeast Supervisory Union. The authors of the letter compared a...
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