BELLOWS FALLS-Rockingham for Progress (RFP), the citizens group that owns and is working to restore...
-Vermont's landmark education bill, recently signed into law, queues up some big changes to the...
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board recently approved new deer hunting rules including one that...
BRATTLEBORO-Town officials from Brattleboro and Hinsdale, New Hampshire remain at odds over the disposition of...
In 2017, the Putney Foodshelf gave 82,797 pounds of food to 3,327 households. Those numbers are up from the year before, when they served 57,829 pounds of food to 2,654 households. And it all happened - storage, sorting, and distribution - in 234 square feet of space in the Putney Community Center at 10 Christian Square. The need is growing and the facility must do the same. “It's been true for awhile,” said Nancy Olson, chair of the Putney Foodshelf...
Special screenings of The 211 Home, a forthcoming film from New Shepherd Films in Oregon, will take place this month at two churches in the area. Michael Gantt, the retired pastor of Agape Christian Fellowship, plays a starring role in the film as Nathan Caponi, a retired union truck driver who strikes up a friendship with a young teen who loves baseball but hates the gift he has received - a ragged, worn-out old glove from his grandfather. “The personal...
I have been reading with interest the debate between landlords and tenants in The Commons about the rental ordinance. I felt compelled to offer a different viewpoint. Many who pay rent can also afford a mortgage payment on a home of their own, but it seems barriers to home ownership are down payments and property taxes that go up every year. Down payment requirements by banks are high, often 20 percent or more of the total price of the home.
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