PUTNEY-It was certainly not their first career when Kate and Charles Dodge founded the Putney...
BRATTLEBORO-Less than two months before the close of its fiscal year, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is...
ROCKINGHAM-The town Selectboard and the village trustees of Bellows Falls and Saxtons River have decided...
PUTNEY-In May, two friends, both residents of Putney Meadows senior housing, were walking on the...
Through no fault of her own, Rep. Becca Balint's second year in Congress is starting to look a lot like her first year in office: mad, chaotic, wasteful, cynical and insane. In the beginning, the Vermont Democrat idealistically went down to Washington ready to work on legislation to help solve her constituents' most pressing problems: housing, mental health, a broken health care system, equal rights, LGBTQIA rights, and then some. But with a slim Republican majority in the House of...
It began with tunnel vision. Then headaches. Then a doctor's diagnosis of a brain tumor. As Neil Taylor struggled to recuperate from hours of surgery, followed by weeks of unconsciousness and sedation and months of physical therapy to relearn how to function head to toe, the 20-something's mind bounced between two thoughts. The first: “I can't see.” The second: “I should be writing about this.” His mother, Alison Taylor, understood. Reeling from the trauma of witnessing her son confront cancer...
My knowledge of the Israel/Hamas situation is superficial at best. While I know some about the history and some about the current situation, I have never studied it in any depth. My own DNA has no Jewish or Palestinian percentages. Over 18 years ago I did marry into a secular Jewish family, and I have certainly come to know their stories of escape from Nazi Germany and Nazi Austria in the late 1930s. Regarding the history of violent conflict in...
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