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...
Next month, Interstate 91 drivers will get a firsthand look at a long-awaited, $60 million bridge. According to a schedule submitted to state legislators, two northbound lanes on the new I-91 bridge in Brattleboro are expected to open March 13. One southbound lane will be available in late April, the state Agency of Transportation's schedule says. And all four lanes finally will be open in mid-June. Given that the project and its accompanying traffic bottleneck has lasted much longer than...
Ian Hefele has finally realized his long-held dream of staging in America a work by South African writer Athol Fugard. For the next two weekends, March 16-18 and 23-25, Vermont Theater Company presents Fugard's The Road to Mecca at the Hooker-Dunham Theater, 139 Main St., in downtown Brattleboro. The play concerns a senior South African widow, Miss Helen, who has been working on an overgrown sculpture garden. Although a neighbor, pastor Marius, urges Helen to move to a senior home,
As a recent college graduate, with many of my friends and classmates struggling with unemployment, I consider myself fortunate to be employed. I consider myself even more fortunate, as well as privileged, to be employed by such a company as Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee. I have been a lifelong resident of Hinsdale. While it is clear that this area is not, and has not, experienced tremendous business growth and is thus not attractive to young people seeking to start their...
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