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Voices

Reader moons over Crescent

By
Mindy Lawrence
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 — Issue 267

This is a well-written article on Crescent Dragonwagon. I am an alumnus of Fearless Writing and love her honesty when she speaks. She is an outstanding instructor and positive influence.

Voices

Slattery: integrity and kindness

By
Swift Everdy

PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,

Hefele: an uncanny ability to bring people together

By
Bridget McBride

WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...

Heller: realism, positivity, and experience building budgets

By
Ruth Shafer

BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...

Eliminating universal school meals program would harm students, local farmers

By
Ellen Graham

BRATTLEBORO-Gov. Phil Scott has proposed eliminating Vermont's successful universal school meals program. As a parent...

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News

A Saturday at the farms

By
Randolph T. Holhut and Jeff Potter
Wednesday, August 27, 2014 — Issue 269

It was fitting that the weather for the first Dummerston Open Farms Day was cool and cloudy to start, and only slowly warming the rest of the day. After a long and cold winter, a rainy spring, and a summer with no heat waves and more days in the 60s and 70s than in the 80s and 90s, it's been a mixed bag for this town's farms. For Read Miller at Dwight Miller & Son Farm, his peach crop was...

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Voices

Judgment without context

By
Cal Glover-Wessel
Wednesday, August 27, 2014 — Issue 269

I've heard people - almost always people who were never poor or ever had to go on welfare or food stamps - complain up a storm over someone they saw at the supermarket using food stamps who had a nicer phone than they did. From that one event, they make an incredibly petty and ignorant argument that everyone on food stamps is lazy and cheating the system for their own gain. I also have to say that in these instances,

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Arts

West River Valley students celebrate award-winning books

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 — Issue 709

This April, student work from Dover, NewBrook, Jamaica, Townshend, and Wardsboro schools will be on display at the Moore Free Library and Crowell Gallery. Unified Arts teachers in the West River and River Valley school districts have been collaborating in connection with Vermont's Red Clover books. The Red Clover Book Award is designed for children in kindergarten through fourth grade. Each year, thousands of Vermont school children read the 10 nominated picture books and vote for their favorite in the...

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