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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...
Women in the U.S. continue to be underrepresented in careers related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), despite some recent strides in these areas. Although women make up 47 percent of the total U.S. workforce, a 2015 Department of Labor report indicates that they constitute only 15.1 percent of workers in all architecture and engineering occupations as well as just 24.7 percent of all workers in computer and mathematical occupations, for example, according to a news release. The Windham...
I strongly support Emilie Kornheiser's candidacy and election to the office of state representative. I had the pleasure of serving with Emilie on the Brattleboro Food Co-op's board of directors and found her to be a clear and thoughtful thinker, very good listener, and team player, able to help build consensus and direction. I appreciate her leadership style, and believe that she'll be a great representative at the state level.
New leadership gives new hope to revitalize live theater and other artistic endeavors in the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery at 139 Main St. as Shannon Ward and Cameron Cobane take on duties as the managers of the iconic space. And the old leadership is happy about the change. “I'm very excited that they're taking it on so it becomes a transition and not a finale,” says former Manager Jon Mack, who retired from the position this spring. “I think Shannon...
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