PUTNEY — Thank you, Joyce Marcel, for this wonderfully written and accurate tribute to my mother.
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...
“It's shocking that in the 109-year history of the NAACP, it's never touched southeastern Vermont,” said Steffen Gillom, president and co-founder of the Windham County National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In February, that changed. The organization received its charter after meeting the NAACP's requirements, which included creating an organizing committee to recruit 100 members for what would become the local chapter. Founded in 1909 by people - white and African-American alike - in response to anti-black violence,
I am furious that the town would put my elderly and handicapped clients as well as myself (I am handicapped) out to park so far from my salon as to make it impossible for them to come in for services. Is the town planning on paying me for the loss of time at work? The town certainly does not pay my rent. I have been here all year every day for the past 23-plus years. This is completely unacceptable. Why...
Award-winning author David Blistein doesn't consider his upcoming presentation at Next Stage so much a reading as a community conversation about the local opioid crisis. On Thursday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m., Next Stage Arts Project will host Blistein, who will be reading from his new book Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World, which tells the extraordinary and at times harrowing tale of how we arrived at today's crisis. “I will read a fairly short excerpt...
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