BRATTLEBORO — RE: “A community photographer, mentor, and friend” [Editorial, April 3]:
A nice tribute to a good friend who is already missed by many.
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...
The towns of Dover and Wilmington took the unusual step of hiring a lobbyist, Kevin Ellis of the Montpelier-based KSE Partners LLC, to advocate for the two communities on education funding issues at the Statehouse this year. In an update presented by Ellis and Dover School Board member Laura Sibilia at a June 5 Dover Selectboard meeting, Ellis said that the town's efforts were bearing fruit. The best example of this, he said, was legislation that was drafted at the...
Representative Town Meeting approved a motion in 2023, calling on the Selectboard to allocate American Rescue Plan Act funds only after engaging with the public as to its preferences for use of those funds. In Selectboard meetings before and after, members of the public asked - really, begged - the board not to obligate ARPA funds until the public had been given a meaningful chance to register its priorities, and we were given assurances that such a public process would...
Art work by Matthew J. Peake will be on display at Main Street Arts through Aug. 14. Peake's pastels feature an aerial perspective of people in abstract ways - by gestural shape - on a geometric background in a form he calls “Overlooks.” The subjects include a view of diners at a table, women sharing a purchase, men chatting, and people and the shadows they create in passing. The artist began his career as a family physician in rural Vermont...
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