BELLOWS FALLS — Please cease all quoting of Deb Wright. She is simply a nuisance. Amplifying her rants does not help, in any sense. She should have no spotlight.
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...
Given the strong statewide push for school mergers, the town of Windham is an outlier in just about every way. The mountaintop community's elementary school has just 14 students from kindergarten through grade six, yet still maintains an independent board and budget for a two-classroom school house. The district even runs its own bus and hires its own driver. And school officials aren't about to change if they can help it. With the town having already rejected an Act 46...
Hiding is, in most cases, a practice of protection, for ill or good. A rule breaker or misbehaver can hide to avoid detection, capture, punishment. A shy person can hide to protect herself from unwanted scrutiny. A tired person can hide for rest and restoration. A zebra can disappear in the grasses, a tiger in the underbrush. One fleeing, one stalking, both surviving. Camouflage is often used for hiding our deadly penchant for violence, whether as sport hunters or to...
Two local visual artists, Petria Mitchell and Jim Giddings, realized that while Brattleboro has long been an area with a lot of working artists, the town actually has few galleries dedicated to showcasing high-quality works of art. So they opened one. On Thursday, Sept. 18, from 5 to 8 p.m., Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts celebrates its grand opening by featuring paintings by Giddings and Mitchell, Doug Trump, and Lauren Olitski; blown glass by Josh Bernbaum; photography by Chris Triebert; and monumental...
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