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Voices

Be nice to our water

By
Colby Merritt
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 — Issue 391

VERNON — In our world today, water is becoming polluted and there is not enough water to share for everyone. The water should belong to everyone.

So much water is getting damaged and polluted and so many people could get hurt with the Dakota Access pipeline. The environment is getting hurt and broken and all the animals are dying - help!

People are stealing good water and then they have to pay to get it back even though it was their water in the first place.

So please keep our water clean, and be nice to our water.

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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Correction

Wednesday, November 21, 2018 — Issue 486

In Youth Services' latest workforce development initiative, a youth-led screen printing business [“Program helps youth build their skills, futures,” [News, Nov. 7], youth workers get paid, but their adult mentors are volunteers. “It is actually essential to the relationship model that the mentors don't get paid, that they come to the process for the sake of the relationship and their communities,” explains Nanci Leitch, development director of Youth Services.

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Voices

White flight

By
Asher Pucciarello
Wednesday, July 15, 2020 — Issue 570

When I was a boy of 5, in 1967, my family, white and poor, was living in a neighborhood of Linden, N.J. that was otherwise occupied by people of color. Linden was two towns away from Newark, N.J. where my parents had grown up and lived most of their lives. Despite our locale and neighbors, I do not remember my parents having any friends of color. I do not remember any immediate neighbors entering our home for a visit. On...

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Arts

Next Stage to host weekend film festival

Wednesday, February 5, 2020 — Issue 547

Next Stage Arts Project and the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival present a special, pop-up weekend festival featuring films from the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival Vermont Tour on Friday, Feb. 7, and Saturday, Feb. 8, at 7 p.m., at Next Stage, 15 Kimball Hill. The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival is completely dedicated to the work of first- and second-time filmmakers, and Next Stage is proud to be part of the festival's Vermont Tour which brings two films selected for the Next...

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