DUMMERSTON — It's sad when you're a devoted employee for decades and when you leave it's no big thing to an employer.
People wonder why no one wants to work at one place for long.
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...
Why residents would be charged legal fees ranging from $800 to $7,000 for information requests - without getting the requested information - has recently been a hot topic for the Selectboard. At the board's March 28 meeting, former Selectboard member Richard Clark started the chat, saying he had made a public records request regarding the Planning Commission in early February, asking for emails from Town Administrator Peder Rude. Clark said two days later he received a letter with “a proposal...
After attending a meeting that The Commons reporter, Robert F. Smith, was covering, I want to state that I wholeheartedly support the Vermont Abenaki tribes. The controversy from the Québec tribes reads as a disrespectful attack on our state-recognized tribes and individuals within them. If there is ever any effort to rescind that state recognition and disenfranchise Vermont Abenaki of their heritage, I would stand with them and hope that fellow Vermonters would do so as well. Emily McAdoo Putney...
The Estey Pipers will perform at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St., for a Tin Pan Alley sing-along concert on Saturday, June 24, at 1 p.m. in the main area of the library. Accompanying the 16 Estey Pipers will be the Green Mountain Strummers Ukulele Band, featuring Cal Heile, Deb Noe, Susan Rosano, and Karen Shapiro on ukuleles; Dennis Waring on clarinet; and Dan DeWalt playing the library's Estey organ. A Creative Aging Grant from the Vermont Arts Council was...
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