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Voices

Great spider cake recipe!

By
Dean Chouinard
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 — Issue 319

What a wonderful recipe! My wife made it last weekend with bacon fat, sour cream, and some fresh local corn. The contrast between the corn bread and the creamy layer in the middle is refreshing.

She plans to make it again for our next family party.

Voices

Planet Hank is at our door

By
Anne Henshaw

Anne Henshaw is an independent educational consultant and advocate for disability rights. CHESTER-On Oct. 18,

Danger to the Constitution

By
Laurie Goldman

TRENTON, MAINE-Jo Schneiderman's piece on self-censorship is one of the most important and precise framings...

We must do more to stop U.S. complicity in Gaza

By
Steve Wangh

BRATTLEBORO-Our senators, Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders, and our Representative, Becca Balint, have been in...

Sweat and ash: the spirit of community in Windham

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Michael Pelton

Michael Pelton, a farm owner and operator and engaged community member, serves on the Windham...

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Restaurateurs go from new dreams to total uncertainty

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 — Issue 559

February marked a time of celebration for Jason Lively and Cory Bratton. In that month, first-time business owner, Lively, acquired Duo Restaurant at the corner of High and Main streets. Just up the hill, Bratton and business partner Samual Schwartzkoph expanded their catering business, A Vermont Table, to include a restaurant in the space formerly occupied by The Backside Cafe in the Midtown Mall. The menus revealed, the tableware set, the doors opened for business. And then, a global pandemic.

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Voices

Russell: Thanks to voters for thinking outside the box

By
Lynn Russell
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 — Issue 281

With a full and grateful heart to all the voters who supported my candidacy for assistant judge in Windham County, I express my thanks for their willingness to think outside the box and consider new possibilities for the future. I also want to encourage everyone - regardless of voting loyalties - in the needed immediate response to the current climate crisis. If we do not reduce our polluting of the atmosphere by 80 percent in the next 35 years, nothing...

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Arts

Twilight on the Tavern Lawn presents Julian Gerstin Sextet

Wednesday, July 24, 2019 — Issue 520

Twilight Music continues its 17th annual Twilight On The Tavern Lawn series of folk, world beat, zydeco, Celtic, jazz, blues, and bluegrass summer concerts on Sunday, July 28, with the Julian Gerstin Sextet performing original jazz influenced by rhythms and melodies of the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. The concert begins at 6 p.m. in downtown Putney on the Putney Tavern lawn (bring a lawn chair or blanket) or at Next Stage at 15 Kimball Hill in case of rain. The...

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