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Voices

Teacher loved, respected

By
Trish Paige Coyne
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 — Issue 376

BRATTLEBORO — Nicole Plympton was my daughter's teacher last year, and she was so loved and respected! I am thrilled that she is getting this recognition. Congratulations!

Voices

Planet Hank is at our door

By
Anne Henshaw

Anne Henshaw is an independent educational consultant and advocate for disability rights. CHESTER-On Oct. 18,

Danger to the Constitution

By
Laurie Goldman

TRENTON, MAINE-Jo Schneiderman's piece on self-censorship is one of the most important and precise framings...

We must do more to stop U.S. complicity in Gaza

By
Steve Wangh

BRATTLEBORO-Our senators, Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders, and our Representative, Becca Balint, have been in...

Sweat and ash: the spirit of community in Windham

By
Michael Pelton

Michael Pelton, a farm owner and operator and engaged community member, serves on the Windham...

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For homeless people, a human connection

By
Joyce Marcel
Wednesday, July 19, 2023 — Issue 723

Brooks Memorial Library is on the front line of the town's and region's homelessness conundrum. With the exception of Groundworks Collaborative, the library is the one place in town where people who are unhoused can find shelter from the weather, have access to the internet, write a letter to a family member, get help finding the services they need, get a few books to take out, use a clean bathroom, drink some cool, clean water, and find a kind word...

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Voices

Jerome: Worked with and helped improve VY evacuation plan

By
Ed Anthes
Wednesday, August 8, 2018 — Issue 471

We have two Statehouse representatives in the Dummerston-Putney-Westminster district. My first vote goes to Cindy Jerome. I know Cindy from her years of work on the Dummerston Selectboard. Cindy was the first Selectboard member I knew to closely examine the evacuation plan for Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, to work with other towns' selectboards to change the plan so it had a better chance of being effective in an emergency, and to support the successful efforts of our state legislators to...

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Arts

Watercolor art students present group show

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 — Issue 818

NEWFANE-Throughout the month of June, local artist and teacher Lynn Zimmerman presents "Watercolor Discoveries," a group show at the Crowell Gallery of work by her students. Twenty-seven women artists who have studied with Zimmerman in her online classes will share their watercolor paintings. Most of the artists are local. Each one will share a discovery made while exploring this medium. A reception will be held at the gallery on Saturday, June 7, from 1 to 3 p.m. Many of the...

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