BELLOWS FALLS-Founded in 1995, Parks Place Community Resource Center is celebrating its 30th anniversary still...
MANCHESTER-The Vermont-based fly-fishing company Orvis is now facing pressures "at a pace that we haven't...
BRATTLEBORO-Representative Town Meeting members met in a special session on May 27 and approved a...
BRATTLEBORO-Great-great-grandmother Shirley Squires is also a great, great fundraiser. The 94-year-old Guilford resident arrived at...
Sometimes you're born with an older brother, and sometimes one is matched to you. In the case of Austin Powers, that match came at just the right time. Keith Clark was working two jobs: one in the Vermont Army National Guard, and the other as Windham County Sheriff. He also had a wife and two daughters and was very active in the community. In his spare time, he signed up to be a “Big.” He had originally thought to sign...
Get your coffee, tea, or favorite caffeinated beverage ready: Local artists and storytellers who want to test their creativity and push their artistic limits are invited to the Rockingham Free Public Library for this year's 24-Hour Comics Day Challenge. The day of extreme cartooning allows 24 straight hours for amateur and professional cartoonists of all ages to challenge themselves to write, draw, and letter an entire 24-page comic in 24 hours. Create your comics traditionally or digitally. The RFPL will...
Between President-elect Barack Obama's campaign promise to end the war in Iraq and that country's desire to have our nation leave its borders, we hold onto hope that we will see progress soon. Most months, we use this space to remind readers of the tragic and very real human cost of this war. Some 4,207 United States military personnel have died in Iraq and 30,634 were wounded there - some maimed for life, physically or psychologically - as of Nov.
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