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...
Since 1988, Brattleboro's bus depot has been inside a small white trailer behind a gas station off Putney Road near Exit 3 of Interstate 91. Since 1998, Sam and Pat Clement of Brattleboro have worked as the station agents in that trailer. But come Sept. 1, the Clements will leave, and the future of Brattleboro's bus service may change. Sam Clement said he and his wife, as independent contractors, are dissolving their relationships with Greyhound, the station's owner. He said...
Vermont Jazz Center artistic director Eugene Uman will present a lecture, “A Survey of the Jazz Piano,” at Brooks Memorial Library, Thursday, Oct. 6, beginning at 7 p.m. in the library's second floor meeting room. This lecture will precede the performance of Kenny Barron and his trio, who will performing at the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro on October 15. The history of jazz piano is a fascinating parallel to the history of jazz itself. From jazz's harbinger, Ragtime, to the...
My comments are in response to the selection of stories that aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on April 30. I believe that the Peoples Climate Movement should have been the featured story of the morning, and I was very disappointed that it didn't get more coverage. The lead story about Trump's rally in Pennsylvania sounded, as usual, like he's still campaigning. Then there was the president's snubbing of the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, an inside-the-Beltway story mainly of interest...
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