BELLOWS FALLS-On this Saturday, the 250th anniversary of two early Massachusetts battles that irrevocably advanced...
BRATTLEBORO-Greg Lesch. the executive director of the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce, died Feb. 19,
Many people in Windham County look on in frustration as they watch the police arrest...
ROCKINGHAM-The town of Rockingham recently announced that the Proposed Amendments to the town's Zoning and...
A former U.S. ambassador and two-time state senator for Windham County, Peter Galbraith, entered the Vermont gubernatorial race today. Galbraith, a Democrat, says his campaign will focus in part on improving economic justice in Vermont. Like economic justice and income inequality, there are issues critical to the state that the other candidates aren't talking about, he said. Voters shouldn't expect him to make grand campaign promises, Galbraith warned. Galbraith said that if elected, he would focus on the issues over...
The Windham Orchestra's “Listen Local” programs, with the aid of a grant from the Vermont Council on the Arts, commissions new works from local composers. As a member of the first violin section, I had the pleasure to interview both the composer and the director of Lucifer's Love Song for the Lord, the song-length new work by Newfane composer Etan Nasreddin-Longo. Here is a summary of the conversations I had with Nasreddin-Longo and Hugh Keelan, the Windham Orchestra's musical director.
BRATTLEBORO-Recently, a friend and I, each from our own homes, did a half-hour Zoom training to phone bank for Jamal Bowman, the Black Democratic congressman representing lower Westchester county and parts of the Bronx. As many readers know, he's facing a huge challenge in the upcoming Democratic primary there on June 25 from one George Lattimer, an undistinguished, retired former county executive who probably had no thought of running until he was approached by AIPAC [the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee].
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