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As it has on so many other aspects of our lives, the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the Vermont high school sports scene.
The Brattleboro Union High School Unified Basketball team was to have opened its eight-game season on March 16 against Burr & Burton.
College news • Oliver Rosand of Putney was named to the Dean's List for the fall 2019 semester at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. Rosand is currently enrolled in the university's Beyond Boundaries Program. Obituaries • Joseph Engel, 82, of Saxtons River. Died March 5, 2020 after a...
We face a crisis that is like nothing the United States has encountered in the last century. The world changed for us last Wednesday, March 11, sometime between the morning, when Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health warned that the COVID-19 crisis would get much worse,
Margie Serkin Harsh, I know, but I believe it is true: As horrible as the global pandemic is, I have to believe that Mother Nature knows exactly what she is doing. We, especially those of us in this country, have been in dire need of an equalizer among all peoples - something to remind us of our shared human vulnerability, and this is it. Clearly, people of privilege are the ones in need of this reminder, and it is so...
Ever since the Reagan administration, and probably before that, we have been subjected to the Republican/right-wing Democratic dismantling of the role of government in the lives of ordinary people. Progressive activists have spent decades struggling for the sort of country where ordinary people could have some agency at a time when the U.S. was becoming more of a playground for the wealthiest every year. It was abundantly clear that we would never be able to rely on Washington to use...
Back on Jan. 15, I visited my financial advisor to see how our nest egg was doing, as I do every year. As usual, the conversation included speculation about whether a recession might happen sometime soon. As usual, we decided that nobody knows, so we should maintain the same investment strategy. I observed that in past recessions, the trigger has usually been some major policy or regulatory failure (like subprime mortgages in 2008 or the savings and loan crisis in...
Remember your senior year of high school? And the very real feelings of excitement and possibility and nerves? Now throw a pandemic on that. No prom, no senior trip, no graduation - these are just a few of the things the class of 2020 is facing with the onset of COVID-19. There are a lot of horrible things about COVID-19, from the loss of life and the suffering of those with the illness, to the hardships related to the stresses...
I left home on Sept. 1. It wasn't a divorce or even a trial separation, but it was time. Time for she who so dutifully tended the nest over the course of 25 years to fly. I left my younger son behind. I thought my flight might lend itself to his. It did. On the very same mid-October weekend that he spread his wings, however, his older brother returned home, taking up residence here alongside his partner. By Christmas, we...
Hoping to stem the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the state of Vermont has ordered the closure of all public schools. This closure will last at least until April 6, but it might be extended depending on how the virus moves through the state. “This is a moment of service for all of us,” Gov. Phil Scott said in a press conference in Montpelier on Monday as he outlined the new measures. “We have to slow the spread down to...
As it set its sights on slowing the spread of the coronavirus, the Selectboard held its March 17 meeting as scheduled - and then its members decided what community events would not follow suit. • The board decided to cancel Annual Representative Town Meeting scheduled for March 21. This decision was based on the prevailing theme of social distancing and avoidance of multiple people gathered in public places. But it was also the result of Governor Phil Scott's executive order...
Foodworks to start deliveries to clients BRATTLEBORO - Groundworks Collaborative has moved its Foodworks food shelf to a delivery model. Households needing food will need to call 802-490-2412 or email ccolascione@groundworksvt.org to arrange delivery. Groundworks is actively preparing a list of volunteers willing to make deliveries and reports it is “in urgent need of volunteer support for this effort,” Groundworks' Executive Director Josh Davis said in a news release. “We have set up protocols to keep staff, volunteers, and clients...
Wolf Kahn, a German-American painter known for his vivid southern Vermont landscapes, died on March 15 at age 92. According to ArtNews, Kahn's New York representative, Miles McEnery Gallery, confirmed his death. Kahn's work is exhibited in galleries worldwide, but it has been Brattleboro, where he has spent each summer and fall since 1968, that has been his muse. When a friend drove him around the region in the late 1960s, he recognized and followed a real estate agent's vehicle...
