BRATTLEBORO — Nick Widomski was a really amazing person, and everybody who knew him is going to miss him terribly.
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...
When he began his day on the morning of Sunday, July 9, Drew Hazelton was planning for 5 to 7 inches of water to fall on southern Vermont. Hazelton, the chief of operations at Rescue Inc., knew that the nonprofit's two swift water rescue teams would be called into service. The state provides equipment. In turn, "we agree to be there when we are needed," he says. And in this case, Hazelton adds, "we knew we would be called out...
One reason water should belong to everyone is the impact of pollution on the environment. Farmers are complaining that their veggies and their animals are dying because of polluted water. Just next door in Bennington, the Chemfab plant leaked chemicals into people's wells. In North Dakota, people are protesting the Dakota Access pipeline because they say it will hurt the environment. One thing I think people can do is urge the government to stop the pipeline. I hope the water...
The Brattleboro Music Center's Chamber Series features Musicians from Marlboro on Monday, Oct. 31 at 7 p.m. This is the first of the group's three tour programs this season and features nine outstanding musicians performing works from three centuries. They include Lauren Pearl, soprano; Abigail Fayette, Alina Kobialka, Anna Lee, and Scott St. John, violin; Kei Tojo and Sharon Wei, viola; and Tony Rymer and Judith Serkin, cello. The program includes Respighi's “Il Tramonto”; Brahms' Quartet in B flat major,
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