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...
Windham and Bennington County residents spoke out on March 26 about what they saw as barriers for southern Vermont women, and the Vermont Commission on Women (VCW) listened. The VCW, a state agency working to help women achieve legal, social, economic, and political equality, approached the Women's Film Festival coordinators to host the listening forum as part of the festival. The event at the New England Youth Theatre was the first listening forum held in the southern portion of Vermont...
Art in the Neighborhood, a Brattleboro-based nonprofit, recently received grants from the Crosby-Gannett Fund and the Dunham-Mason Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation. The grants will provide tuition-free art classes to students receiving services from Health Care and Rehabilitative Services, the regional mental health agency. Art in the Neighborhood has been collaborating with that agency since 2015. These grants allow continued funding for the program. Mollie S. Burke, Executive Director of Art in the Neighborhood, said in a news release...
I would like to apologize for calling the LGBTQ+ community “people with unusual sexual preferences” at the Sept. 1 Brattleboro Selectboard meeting, where I presented a petition calling on the board to “fly the We Celebrate Democracy/Civil Rights For All main street banner over Main Street whenever there is a space for a banner to be hung.” According to our mission statement, we are organized and operate exclusively on a nonprofit basis to promote positive nonviolent public action for democracy...
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