RE: “Coming home” [Arts, June 13].
Grants Ferry is a very good read. I especially liked David Chase's sneaky sense of humor.
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...
The recent Democratic caucus meeting in town attracted all of seven people, and that's about two more than usual, according to Chairman Clarence Boston. But the meeting ran unusually long as Marlboro Democratic Committee members debated whether to endorse U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for president. In doing so, they thwarted the wishes of state and county party leaders, who are urging no primary-season endorsements for any candidate at any level. Boston says the committee wasn't interested in heeding that...
The great news about the impending shutdown of Vermont Yankee is a big victory for the home team, but one that is full of interesting ironies. For example, the first reason that Entergy gives for shutting down VY is “a natural gas market that has undergone a transformational shift in supply due to the impacts of shale gas, resulting in sustained low natural-gas prices and wholesale energy prices.” Shale gas, of course, which is accessed through hydrofracking, is one of...
Pikes Falls Chamber Music Festival (PFCM) is returning to celebrate the 2023 summer season with an admission-free concert series. Concerts begin on Tuesday, Aug. 8, in Jamaica and run through Saturday, Aug.12. In the summer of 2012, Susanna Loewy founded a summer festival emphasizing music and visual art. In the foothills of the Green Mountains, Pikes Falls Chamber Music Festival was born. Since then, PFCM has performed 59 concerts in Southern Vermont, commissioned 13 world premieres, and has shown 13...
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