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...
Cory Walker's fourth season farming in Vermont turned into a wet one. Walker listened to U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., introduce three agricultural assistance bills during the congressman's recent visit to Allen Brothers Farm. The farmer has not purchased federal crop insurance for his farm, Guerrilla Grown Produce. Walker explained the insurance does not meet the needs of small organic farmers but instead favors “large-scale grain” farms. Walker rents fields for Guerrilla Grown and plants in two-week cycles on small...
Vermont author Kate Hennessy, granddaughter of Dorothy Day, journalist, suffragette, and a founder of the Catholic Worker social justice movement, discusses her new book, Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty, at 6 p.m., on Friday, Feb. 3, at Everyone's Books, 25 Elliot St. Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a prominent Catholic, writer, social activist, and co-founder of the Catholic Workers, dedicated to serving the poorest of the poor. Her life has been revealed through her own writings as...
I think of myself as a lifelong environmentalist, from participating in the first Earth Day and in education about nuclear power via Seabrook activists in the early '70s, through today, when we are at the major decision time regarding the healthy future of the planet. In those many years of observing presidential politics, I have never felt that we had a candidate who truly understood the importance of making real and lasting changes in our economic system in order to...
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