RE: “A good session for our lawmakers” [Editorial, May 16]:
A “good session” if you call redistributing other people's money good.
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
BRATTLEBORO-Gov. Phil Scott has proposed eliminating Vermont's successful universal school meals program. As a parent...
A round of applause echoed through The Works cafe on Main Street in Brattleboro on the morning of June 28. “The Supreme Court upheld health care reform,” Lynette Lewis, a member of The Vermont Workers' Center, happily told her fellow cafe-goers. “This is cause for celebration.” Most people paused from sipping coffees and eating muffins to cheer. One table of two shook their heads whispering, “I have no idea what they're talking about.” Lewis said that she could feel confident...
Early this morning, I shined my flashlight on the thermometer that hangs on the woodshed: 15 below. When I first moved here, the sight of that needle anywhere below zero made me quake. I wondered what had possessed me - an essentially tropical soul - to move north. Somewhere between then and now, I miraculously acclimated and accepted my fate. When I was young, I dreaded winter. Six days a week, I exercised racehorses on a farm in southeastern Pennsylvania.
The Vermont Jazz Center is excited to present pianist Harold López-Nussa and his all-Cuban quartet on Saturday, Nov. 2, at 8 p.m., as part of the VJC's Emerging Artist Festival. This event is being held in memory of the VJC's dear friend and generous patron, Jonathan Flaccus, whose passion for Cuban music and classic bebop, as well as his generosity in assisting those in need, has had a great impact on the Jazz Center. This is a rare opportunity to...
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