Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, Mollie Burke, Michael Mrowicki, and Zon Eastes are state representatives; Nader...
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
Federal statistics offer some positive news for hunger in Vermont: Over the past several years, the state's rate of “food insecurity” has been trending slowly but steadily downward. But those numbers don't mean much in the West River Valley, where community volunteers and school staffers are seeing a growing number of families who don't have enough to eat. Their responses are diverse. A nurse is starting an in-school food shelf. A community organization is hosting cooking classes and free soup...
Award-winning watercolorist Robert O'Brien of Perkinsville offers a winter landscape painting workshop at Main Street Arts on Saturday, Jan. 18, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The workshop will cover watercolor techniques used to capture New England's snow, including glazing, wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, color mixing, perspective and color, use of color, value study, and composition. O'Brien (www.robertjobrien.com) also will address value patterns and their importance in a composition, the use of light and shadow, and the dry brush technique.
Recently, my family and I were sitting down for dinner when the topic of my graduation speech came up. My sister chimed in: “Write it about me!” I jokingly agreed, and I said I would title it after her and talk about how foolish she acts sometimes and the fact that she thinks she is always right, never wrong. In the countdown to graduation, I suddenly realized, “Hey, that's not such a bad idea.” Now, here I stand before the...
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