Love the article. I've known Lester Dunklee for years and always had a great respect for him - you couldn't find a nicer person!
A great machinist, too - very innovative!
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
BRATTLEBORO-Gov. Phil Scott has proposed eliminating Vermont's successful universal school meals program. As a parent...
Good day to you, southeastern Vermonters! Autumn is most certainly flexing some seasonal muscle as of late, and the majority of the upcoming seven-day period will be no different. However, we will be experiencing a single, breezy, muggy and potentially stormy late-summer day for Wednesday before we drop back down into fall. In fact, after Wednesday, the period of Thursday through Monday looks fair, dry and seasonable overall, with a chance for showers by next Tuesday. Having said that, let's...
After 40 years of teaching history in New York City independent schools, I resigned last June to protest the abrupt cancellation of an elective course I had taught for many years dealing with the Israel/Palestine conflict. The school administration had made no criticism of the way I conducted this class. It acted - and admitted to acting - to mollify a group of right-wing Zionist parents (none of whose children had taken my course) who had targeted the class as...
Windborne will present “Song on the Times,” their project of songs from working-class movements for peoples' rights from the past 400 years, in Bellows Falls at the stone church on the hill, Immanuel Episcopal, 20 Church St., at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 1. The powerfully harmonizing four-member singing group was catapulted to new heights when a clip of them singing in protest outside Trump Tower in New York went viral, and their Indiegogo campaign for the project wildly surpassed...
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