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Voices

Badly worded

By
David Evans
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 — Issue 299

BRATTLEBORO — I agree the wording on the ballot seemed biased.

The issue is the amendments were poor options for the most part, regardless of how they were presented.

Voices

What has the U.S. done?

By
Kate Kenner

GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...

Keeping faith in ‘interesting times’

By
The Beloved Community VT

The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...

Election results: obvious, but still shocking

By
M.N. Scherbatskoy

WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...

We’ve become a business with a community problem

By
Hannah Sorila

Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...

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News

‘We are the government’

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 — Issue 499

It's easy to take Town Meeting for granted. It is, on its surface, the annual gathering of small-town voters to debate small-town things. It's an endearing New England tradition wrapped in local characters and tied with a string of Robert's Rules of Order. Town Meeting, however, is We the People made local. Yes, it's easy to roll one's eyes at an hour-long debate about hiring a dog catcher, concedes Susan Clark, the town moderator for Middlesex. Town Meeting is powerful...

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Voices

Handle with care

By
Laura Kaskur
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 — Issue 358

One compromised spent-fuel canister could deliver an 1850 msv dose of radiation to the population within 1 mile. I really don't think it's a good idea to be moving this stuff around too much.

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Arts

Putney Library exhibits art of Nina Salvatore

Wednesday, June 7, 2023 — Issue 718

“Mist,” a collection of oil paintings and encaustics by Nina Salvatore, is on exhibit at the Putney Public Library, 55 Main St., through Aug. 26. Salvatore's paintings reflect her love of the natural world around her, especially her deep love of Vermont. On her walks, she says, she focuses on light and the patterns in the earth and is fascinated by mist and fog, and how these elements obscure one's vision only to reveal later another aspect of the view.

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