BRATTLEBORO — Last year, on U.S. profits of $5.6 billion, Amazon didn't pay federal income tax.
The company's “warehouse associates,” who work at $12.63 per hour, did.
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-Michaella, 22, is from Burundi; Sidra, 20, is from Syria, but both have been far from home for some time now. Michaella was a refugee at Kakuma, a United Nations Refugee Agency camp in Kenya. Sidra was a transplant in Jordan. Before arriving in mid-January, each went through a rigorous application process to be accepted as one of 85 from among several thousand applicants into the Welcome Corps Campus (WCC) program currently underway at School for International Training (SIT) in...
Vermont is facing two serious and interrelated challenges: reducing carbon emissions, and providing housing that is energy efficient, safe, and available -housing not only for those of us who already live here, but for those who are fleeing climate catastrophes, for those fleeing political (and often lethal) turmoil, and for others we are inviting in with our culture of community. The pace of the influx is only going to grow as climate change and other pressures worsen. Already we are...
The Rock River Players present their production of the classic screwball comedy Harvey, taking the stage at Williamsville Hall this fall. Audiences can witness this timeless story unfold with performances over two weekends, from Sept. 29 through Oct. 8. A Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by Mary Chase, Harvey tells the story of Elwood P. Dowd and his unlikely companion, an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit. As Elwood's family tries to commit him to a sanitarium, the tale unfolds with delightful humor and heart,
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