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...
There are two views from the seventh floor of the Hooker-Dunham Building. Looking from the windows overlooking Brattleboro's Main Street, a scene unfolds of people on their lunch break visiting local restaurants, and of shoppers and tourists pausing to watch the restoration of the historic Brooks House. From the window behind Luke Q. Stafford and Meryl Robinson's desks: a hazy summer landscape filled by the Connecticut River and Mount Wantastiquet. Kayakers paddle the river. Birds dip and swoop from the...
Health Care and Rehabilitation Services, a nonprofit, community mental-health agency for southeastern Vermont, will host a community concert with the Me2/Orchestra on Saturday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m., at the Latchis Theatre. The event is in honor of the agency's 50th anniversary, with the goal of promoting community awareness and destigmatizing mental health disorders and treatment. More than 115,000 Vermonters are estimated to have experienced a mental illness during the past year. Many of these individuals are unwilling to seek...
Re: “Confronting 'Entergy Louisiana' - in Louisiana” [Dispatch, April 11]: Utilizing the courts in the manner for which they were conceived is not fighting democracy. The courts were enjoined to ascertain whether the Vermont Legislature attempted to capture authority that it had no right to wield. If it did, then perhaps it is the Vermont Legislature, not Entergy, that is fighting democracy in the state of Vermont. You see, one of our democracy's important aspects is its resistance to something...
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