RE: “A good session for our lawmakers” [Editorial, May 16]:
A “good session” if you call redistributing other people's money good.
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...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
With six people running for three seats on the Selectboard and with two incumbents stepping aside, the Annual Town Election on Tuesday, March 5 is shaping up to offer a choice between activist energy and governing experience. With Chair Kate O'Connor choosing not to run for her three-year seat after six years on the board, incumbent Tim Wessel, twice elected to one-year terms, is now running for the vacated three-year slot. He is being challenged by longtime community member Ben...
I recently returned from a hiking trip to the wondrous Bryce Canyon, Zion, and Grand Canyon national parks. The Southwest desert is a fascinating place: it offers beautiful nature in some areas and is desolate and poverty stricken in others. It also is affluent and fast-growing in cities and some towns. The limited areas we saw in Southern Utah and Northern Arizona seemed to have two striking things in common: sunshine almost all the time and no solar! I know...
Doctora Xingona Diana Alvarez and Olivia Nied will co-headline Stage 33 Live at 33 Bridge St. on Sunday, Aug. 27, in a 3 p.m. matinee. Multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Nied has been performing as a soloist, ensemble leader, and side person since she was 9 years old in styles ranging from edgy pop to jazz fusion to hip-hop and straight up rock-and-roll. Her solo performances often incorporate looping and multiple instruments. As a transgender/queer musician, Nied often includes LGBTQ+ lyrical themes...
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