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...
Nearly a year ago, community leaders gathered in the Cotton Mill for an event launching southern Vermont's efforts to welcome and resettle more than 100 evacuees from Afghanistan. These evacuees fled their homeland in August 2021 with the collapse of the Kabul-based Afghan government and the subsequent takeover of the country by the Taliban. They eventually ended up in Vermont at the beginning of this year, with the campus of the SIT/World Learning in Brattleboro as their first stop. Weeks...
The Guilford Fair presents a three-day showcase of live music starting on Saturday, Aug. 31, with local blues legend “Sunny Lowdown” and his band playing from 1 to 3 p.m. On Sunday, Sept. 1, at 10 a.m. the New Hampshire-based bluegrass fusion group Rise starts out the day, followed by local rockers The Brattlyn Brothers at 12:30 p.m. Guilford resident Patty Carpenter and the Dysfunctional Family Jazz Band take the stage from 3 to 5 p.m. On Monday, Sept. 2,
Stop Line 3! The four of us - all local residents - were honored to answer a national call from Indigenous water protectors to stand up for treaty rights and a world full of possibilities. It was time to join frontline actions to stop what is officially called the Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline Replacement Project - but what, effectively, is a new tar sands pipeline. We were called on as parents and grandparents and to honor our connection to all...
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