Hello and good day to you, residents of the peaceful and picturesque windy hamlets of southeastern Vermont! We have so many changes on the way, I'm just going to jump right in. For Wednesday, a storm system responsible for a few morning flurries pulls away which will lead to scattered afternoon and evening snow showers and squalls. Windy and cold conditions follow at night into the morning, which will lead to a beautiful, but cold Thursday. Snow and ice on...
In the wake of the recent well-publicized walkouts at schools around the country, I made the mistake of reading comments on the social-media links to stories covering the events. Not surprisingly, this was not the path to personal internal peace. I read comments about how disrespectful and uninformed “kids today” are. Ironically, most of those comments were made in incredibly inflammatory language, with dismissive tones, and with a real lack of actual information about the viewpoints and knowledge bases of...
Dummerston-based artist Linda Rubinstein makes one-of-a-kind books, figurative fabric sculpture, word-and-image journals, and maps of places she loves. An exhibit at the Dummerston Historical Society is centered on selections from her image and word journals about life in her chosen hometown of 45 years. She has just completed a map, Ode to Miller Road, that will be exhibited for the first time at the Historical Society on Middle Road in Dummerston Center. Also being presented is a sampling of the...
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