RE: “Can a bicycle replace the family car?” [News, Nov. 7]:
A spot of inspiring news! If people in Vermont can ride bikes even in the winter, we certainly can here in California!
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. He adds: "I'm proud that in Windham...
Nobel Peace Prize winner and Brattleboro Union High School graduate Jody Williams, an international political activist most known for her work to ban and clear land mines, will speak to the school community on Tuesday, May 17. Williams helped launch the International Campaign to Ban Landmines in 1991. The ICBL had 1,000 international member organizations from 100 countries working on the issue. In 1997, the Ottawa Treaty, signed by 133 nations, banned land mines around the world. For that work,
I am a local preschool teacher and love running around and being outside with my kids every day. I am an avid gardener at my home, and I am interested in local foods and nutrition. I have also attempted to unify my preschool and gardening interests by becoming part of the Farm to School movement. Given my profession and my interests, I hear an awful lot about childhood obesity and, quite frankly, I am tired of it. Childhood obesity is...
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of contemporary folk music with Antje Duvekot and Pete Bernhard at Next Stage, 15 Kimball Hill, on Sunday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m. Duvekot is a German-born, American-raised singer-songwriter whose songs "have been critically praised for their hard-won wisdom, dark-eyed realism, and street-smart romanticism," organizers note in a news release. They continue: "Her bicultural upbringing and relative newness to English have helped shape her unique way with a song, giving...
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