BRATTLEBORO — RE: “The artisan-cheese revolution” [Food & Drink, June 5]:
There is little in life that can't be helped by cheese.
BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...
BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...
SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...
GUILFORD-In the subheading referring to "the 'cruelty' of the budget bill," I understand why you...
As Dennis Marcom tells it, his friend and neighbor in Walpole N.H., Peter Stolley, arrived in his kitchen at the beginning of April and said, “What do you think about going to Poland and volunteering for World Central Kitchen for a week?” Two weeks later, the two retired friends were on a plane, headed for a town near the Polish/Ukrainian border, spending their time making sandwiches, to the tune of 6,000 to 7,000 sandwiches a day as part of a...
The other day, I happened to speak to a director of a business that employs more than 150 employees. My focus was on Sen. Peter Galbraith's health-care funding bill (S.252), which recommends an 11-percent tax on employer's wages and a 2-percent tax on employees' wages (as a substitute for employer's share and employee's premiums) in order to finance universal health care. Noting that he was in favor of universal health care, this businessperson opined (off the cuff) that his business...
“Taking Power: Photographs from the People's Movement to Shut Down Vermont Yankee” opens from 5:30 to 8 p.m. during Gallery Walk on Sept. 6. The show, representing three outstanding photographers' work, is hosted for September and October by the Elliot Street Café. At the opening, the photographers and the event's sponsor, the Safe and Green Campaign, will discuss the context of the photos and activists' ongoing struggle to close Vermont Yankee. Refreshments will be served. The artists are Cate Woolner...
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