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Voices

Cochlear implant: learning to hear

By
Olive Elizabeth Hall
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 — Issue 328

Having had a musical education myself, I found Laura Stevenson's explanation of her adjustment to a cochlear implant very informative.

What patience is required for a mother to help a child who has received a CI to learn to hear.

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

Faith communities prepare to welcome refugees from Syria

By
Wendy M. Levy
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 — Issue 379

By the end of the year, Rutland will receive 100 new residents, said Reverend Lise Sparrow, pastor at Guilford's United Church of Christ. Most of them will be women and children, and all of them will be resettled refugees from Syria. Sparrow will join representatives from other Windham and Windsor county UCC churches, and other faith communities, at a presentation at the United Church of Bellows Falls on Oct. 23 to discuss the refugees' arrival and how southern Vermont community...

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Voices

An environment for a fascist takeover

By
Nancy Braus
Wednesday, July 27, 2022 — Issue 674

One of the takeaways from our current political insanity is a crucial truth: Creating destruction and chaos is easy; building a system that is just is hard. Since the era of Reconstruction, millions of Americans have fought for civil rights, rights for women, for immigrants, and more recently, for the rights of disabled people and LGBTQ+ individuals. We have marched in the streets, we have volunteered to go door to door for progressive candidates, we have lobbied our legislators. And...

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Arts

World music concert on Feb. 6 benefits school music program in Guilford

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 — Issue 291

Friends of Music at Guilford, now in its 49th concert season, has been presenting a three-day music enrichment residency for the Guilford Central School (GCS) for seven seasons. Master teacher Todd Roach, a drummer-percussionist based in Brattleboro, and a number of his performing colleagues have been working with the upper grades at GCS in rhythm, voice, and instrumental workshops. Participants demonstrate what they have been learning at an assembly performance for the whole school on the final day. Support for...

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