RE: “What happens when a library loses its spirit?” [Column, Sept. 25]:
What a beautiful and resonant description of what we love about and get from libraries!
BRATTLEBORO-We are living in a moment of deep crisis for our democracy. Billionaires and political...
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...
Two in five Vermonters are experiencing food insecurity, reported Hunger Free Vermont in a recent virtual briefing on the hunger in the state. The federal government defines food insecurity as households being, at times, unable to acquire adequate food for one or more household members because they have insufficient money and other resources for food (see sidebar). Nationally, 12.8% of all U.S. households were food insecure in 2022, up from 10.2% in 2021, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel's words have kept rising up for me lately, as the war against women keeps taking us backward in time. From Supreme Court decisions affecting basic rights for access to health care for women to a recent incident of a sports-radio announcer calling a woman reporter a ”gutless bitch” because he didn't like the way she interviewed an athlete, women continue to be targets for oppression. Many women are speaking out and calling others...
Guilford Center Stage opens its fourth year with Spoon River May 4-6 at the Broad Brook Community Center on Guilford Center Road. The modern American classic will be performed in a new adaptation for the stage by Guilford playwright Michael Nethercott, who directs the play. Performances are Friday and Saturday evenings, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. The original book of epitaph-monologues, Spoon River Anthology by Chicago lawyer Edgar Lee Masters, created a sensation when first published...
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