This story was a great read, and it brought back many memories.
I'm looking forward to the Putney Grade School reunion, and seeing all of you. Thank you for all your hard work.
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...
BELLOWS FALLS-This month, Bellows Falls Union High School will begin a partnership with the Jed Foundation, a national nonprofit, for a three-year program aimed at improving and safeguarding the emotional and mental health of students and preventing teen and young adult suicide. The Jed Foundation was established by Phil and Donna Satow following the death of their youngest son, Jed, by suicide in 1998, when he was in college. BFUHS and the Jed Foundation will collaborate on implementing a comprehensive...
I may be wrong. But I believe we got through the presidential debates without ever hearing the word “poor.” With occasional exceptions like Lyndon Johnson, politicians stick to talking about the middle class: their virtues, their problems, how we're failing them, etc. They don't talk about poor people because it would cost them white votes. Though many more whites than blacks live below the government's poverty line, “poor” for many whites conjures “black.” And whoever it is that comes to...
BRATTLEBORO-The UMass Percussion Ensemble returns to the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on Sunday, April 13, at 7 p.m. to perform works by J.S. Bach, Franco Donatoni, Andy Akiho, and more. Led by percussionist Ayano Kataoka, the UMass Percussion Ensemble is made up of graduate and undergraduate percussion students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. For their performance in Brattleboro, students Daniel Burroughs, Morgan Corey, Robert Grahmann, Philip Hanifin, Max Palmer, Thaman Surya, and Reuven Wolfe will perform...
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