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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...
Town Manager Peter Elwell broke down the potential paths and financial options for the Police-Fire project. With the exception of the “minimum required plan,” all the cost comparisons assume a 20-year bond. The minimum required plan covers the bare bones of what needs to happen at the three stations and will require additional work in 20 years. Therefore, Elwell recommends not taking out a bond for more than 10 years. Elwell also reminded the audience that the town could take...
Protecting farmland is a good investment. Farmland attracts tourists. The towns that have protected the most land from development have the lowest property taxes. That's according to a study by the Vermont League of Cities and Towns. This kind of investment helps rich and poor Vermonters alike. The state pays almost all of low-income homeowners' property taxes for them. Poor renters are eligible for state money to help pay their rent. In Dummerston, the Selectboard is proposing an investment of...
WEST CHESTERFIELD, N.H.-This weekend's opening of 2025's Ten Minute Play Festival (TMPF) at Actors Theatre Playhouse (ATP) in West Chesterfield, New Hampshire, marks the start of the theater company's 50th season. "Sort of 50 years," Artistic Director Sam Pilo explains. It was a peripatetic journey with a couple of fallow years. The season also marks a transition from Pilo's singular artistic direction. "In the last two or three years, we've gotten a new board," chaired by Bob Kramsky, Pilo says.
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