Tom Schiedler shows that one is never too old to learn about and appreciate a new art form. Thank you for making me look in a different way.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
The annual Representative Town Meeting zipped along - by local standards - on Saturday. Town Meeting members approved all but two of the 26 binding agenda items, including the municipal and school budgets as presented, along with other spending. They defeated, yet again, a proposal to enact a 1-percent local option sales tax as a new revenue stream. And members approved some crucial infrastructure repairs. Topping the list is the Green Street retaining wall, which is failing and threatening to...
PUTNEY-I strongly oppose Article II on the Brattleboro's Annual Town Meeting Australian ballot on Tuesday, March 4, which falsely defines Israel as an apartheid state. This claim is not only untrue but has no place on the town ballot. Our local government must uphold integrity and refuse to entertain baseless accusations. Israel is a pluralistic, multicultural democracy where Muslims, Jews, Christians, and others participate as equals in every aspect of society. The one exception is that Jews and Christians are...
Main Street Arts has announced its winter schedule of classes, including seven Saturday workshops for those with limited time. Robert O'Brien will be conducting a watercolor workshop Saturday, Jan. 9, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., on painting the snowy winter landscape. The fee is $58 for members and $71 for non-members. Encaustic Collage is the subject of Collin Leech's workshop Saturday, Feb. 6, from 1 to 4 p.m., with a fee of $83 for members and $95 for non-members,
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