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Voices

Mystery solved!

By
Douglas Gordon
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 — Issue 182

BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Guilford's fire station needs paint” [Town and Village, Dec. 5]:

A well-reported article. I drive by the Guilford Fire Department all the time and wondered why it was blue.

Voices

Planet Hank is at our door

By
Anne Henshaw

Anne Henshaw is an independent educational consultant and advocate for disability rights. CHESTER-On Oct. 18,

Danger to the Constitution

By
Laurie Goldman

TRENTON, MAINE-Jo Schneiderman's piece on self-censorship is one of the most important and precise framings...

We must do more to stop U.S. complicity in Gaza

By
Steve Wangh

BRATTLEBORO-Our senators, Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders, and our Representative, Becca Balint, have been in...

Sweat and ash: the spirit of community in Windham

By
Michael Pelton

Michael Pelton, a farm owner and operator and engaged community member, serves on the Windham...

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Putney scrambles to find replacement for town clerk in time for Town Meeting

By
Wendy M. Levy
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 — Issue 449

With Town Clerk Denise Germon's resignation at midnight on March 6, it was up to the town's Board of Civil Authority to appoint someone hours later to preside over Town Meeting. The BCA, which consists of the town's justices of the peace, the Selectboard, and the town agent, met in the Fifth Grade room at the Putney Central School at 9 a.m. on March 6 - an hour before Town Meeting was called to order. Under statute, it is the...

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Voices

My animal shelter work was everything — and it was killing me

By
Holly McCarrick
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 — Issue 305

His name was Sam. To know Sam was to know, intimately and sometimes unfortunately, the innermost workings of an animal rescue organization. And then, there is Rocky. To know Rocky is to reawaken the hope, love, and passion that brought me into animal welfare. In the fall of 2012, I began working as a canine caregiver for a small shelter in southern Vermont. From there, I continued my education through two other shelters, and I obtained my degree in canine...

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Arts

A new groove grows in the Green Mountains

By
Richard Henke
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 — Issue 200

Cuban percussionist William Armando Rodriguez, whom guitarist Jason Sperling has called “the greatest musician now living and performing in Southern Vermont,” is performing with his group De Lomas y Sones on Saturday, April 27, as part of a Latin Dance Party for Timson Hill Preschool's 25th anniversary celebration. The fundraiser runs from 6 to 11 p.m. at the Williamsville Grange. A silent auction runs 6 to 7:45, and the Latin dance party kicks off at 8. If Sperling's praise sounds...

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