TOWNSHEND — Great interview; very inspiring! We're lucky to have companies like Mondo Mediaworks in Brattleboro!
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...
BRATTLEBORO-Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU) Supt. Mark Speno has negotiated a three-year contract, to the surprise of some. On Feb. 14 of this year, the WSESU board entered executive session. Minutes of the meeting state that, upon returning to open session, vice chair Kerry Amidon moved that the board vote to authorize chair Anne Beekman "to negotiate and sign an administrative contract." The board approved. Eight months later, at the board's Oct. 9 meeting, Beekman made a statement with the...
I have been silent on the Selectboard's termination of the Rescue Inc. contract in favor of the town taking over EMS, but it is now time for me to speak on the issue. This was a shortsighted and horrendously wrong decision, because the numbers just do not make sense. The town was paying Rescue $280,000 annually for the EMS Services. Per a recent article in the Reformer, here are the costs to switch over: • Start up costs $1,000,000 from...
Driving up a steep dirt road in Putney, past Chuck Ginnever's sculptures, I finally land at David Rohn's house and studio. On this snowy windy day, it's a bit of a harrowing trip. But Rohn is a gracious host and, before I'm even settled in for our interview, he has set out a hot cup of tea for me. I am here to speak with this artist who is a sought-after teacher and longtime pillar of southern Vermont's visual arts...
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