Brenda Siegel is executive director of End Homelessness Vermont. NEWFANE-The Scott administration's announcement that it...
BRATTLEBORO-Community House is located within the applicable zones identified by the town of Brattleboro and...
ATHENS-Fhar Miess's recent letter on behalf of Southern Vermont for Palestine advocates for the boycott...
NORTHFIELD, MASS.-The writer says Donald Trump "won the racial hatred vote, the misogyny vote, and...
Following the Legislature's annual hiatus for Town Meeting Day, local lawmakers are back on the job trying to keep a very full agenda on track. Lawmakers in Montpelier last week were trying to tie up loose ends on budget bills in time for crossover day March 22, when the legislation in process would go from House to Senate or vice versa. The crossover deadline for policy bills had come on March 15. In the midst of this shuffle, most of...
Dear Governor Scott: Three times each week, we listen to your COVID-19 news conferences. We appreciate your patience, candor, and caution. You accept responsibility for decisions while, appropriately, deferring to your experts to provide precise and detailed answers to the questions. Your science-based approach generally increases our confidence in your decisions. However, you have yet to provide a science-based rationale for your decision to not require that business patrons wear masks. You and your colleagues refer to informal observations that...
Vaudeville lives! The first-ever Putney Vaudeville is presented by Next Stage Arts Project in collaboration with Strong Coffee Stage on Friday, May 24, at 7:30 p.m. at Next Stage at 15 Kimball Hill. The bill includes stellar professional acts and a rousing live band, as well as assorted friends and neighbors displaying skills that may surprise you. The show also will invite good-natured audience engagement. Beer and wine flow from a J.D. McCliment's Pub cash bar. Putney Vaudeville is the...
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