Congratulations, Starr LaTronica! Brooks Memorial Library is very lucky.
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...
Landmark College celebrates the 30th anniversary of its founding during the weekend of Sept. 25-27. That same weekend is the alumni reunion for Windham College, whose campus Landmark now occupies. Landmark was born as the Landmark School in Beverly, Mass., as a high school for children with learning disabilities. Windham College, whose enrollment hit its peak in the 1970s, was founded by Walter Hendricks, a name familiar to many locals. Hendricks started two other area schools: Mark Hopkins College in...
For generations Vermont has banned billboards. For us and for visitors to Vermont from other states and around the world, the lack of billboards sets the tone of our beautiful rural state and its quiet countryside. I am concerned that this tradition is threatened. Large political signs have been put up around Vernon and Guilford. I don't know what the limits are for a sign to be banned, but these very nicely designed signs have, in my opinion, gone beyond...
The Brattleboro Music Center's Season Guest Concert Series welcomes In Stile Moderno on Friday, Oct. 28. The Center says the 7 p.m. concert, titled “Quia Amore Langueo,” will showcase 17th-century Italian settings of Song of Songs texts with the timbres of voice, cornetto, theorbo, and organ - the cornetto and voice intertwining as one in works for two sopranos. Performers include Agnes Coakley Cox, soprano; Nathaniel Cox, cornetto and theorbo; and Juan A. Mesa, organ. “These passionate and virtuosic works...
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