Where did FairPoint ever say that it would cut pay by one-third?
What a dumb letter. Get the facts straight before writing, please.
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
BRATTLEBORO-Gov. Phil Scott has proposed eliminating Vermont's successful universal school meals program. As a parent...
It was standing room only when Windham County Sheriff Keith Clark presented his plan for the Liberty Mill Justice Center (LMJC) to the public for the first time last week. At least 50 villagers attended the meeting, many voicing skepticism about the private transitional housing facility for people entering or exiting the justice system, which Clark is proposing for the 57,000-foot former Chemco building at 203 Paper Mill Rd., at the confluence of the Saxtons and Connecticut rivers. The project...
I am a second-generation American. My grandparents were immigrants. They came from eastern Europe to escape the pogroms and persecution that Jews faced. I often wonder what it was like for them when they arrived in this country. I never did ask them about their experiences. I am thinking about this now because I am experiencing immigration from the perspective of someone welcoming new immigrants to this country. Brattleboro, Vermont has become the home to about 100 people from Afghanistan.
On Dec. 15 at 4 and 7:30 p.m., and Dec. 16 at 3 p.m., Sandglass Theater will present its annual Crankie Weekend, showcasing the mystique and low-tech charm of pairing song and story with rolling pictures. Crankies are scrolling illustrations, wound inside a wooden box and then hand-cranked so that the images move across a viewing screen. Once called “moving panoramas,” crankies were as close as it got to films in the early 19th century. Recently, crankies have made a...
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