“A simple quiz” [Voices, Sept. 5] was a very-well-done article.
To any who might say that I'm anti-God or even anti-religion, I would reply: No. Just anti-theocracy.
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...
On the January Saturday morning of my interview with John McLeod, I was running late. Having careened my way over the hills from Brattleboro, the 25-mph speed limit into and out of downtown Wilmington was as frustrating as ever, until that stretch of five or six buildings on the north side that signal the last of Wilmington for a while -- and the go-ahead for a heavier foot. Truth be told, I've sped through the west end of that town...
The voters' choice is always ours, at least for now. Simple math: Dummerston, Putney, Guilford, and Vernon have 100-percent direct voter participation in their schools, done by electing school board members and/or casting a ballot at Town Meeting. Changing school governance to a super board under Act 46 gives each of these towns one member per outlying town (Brattleboro has more) to a board of eight or so. The outlying towns would then have less than a 15-percent say in...
BELLOWS FALLS-On Thursday, Sept. 5, at 6:30 p.m. at the Rockingham Free Public Library, acclaimed authors Eileen Charbonneau and Eileen O'Finlan will take a dark look at what happened when two European folk beliefs arrived in what would become the United States in their new novels Spectral Evidence and The Folklorist, respectively. O'Finlan's The Folklorist is a dual-timeline story set in 1970s and 1830s Vermont. It explores the New England Vampire Panic of the 19th century and its family echoes.
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