WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. He adds: "I'm proud that in Windham...
Charlotte Bishop was standing at her kitchen window in January 2019 when she saw water streaming into her yard. A block of ice had clogged the brook that snakes around the mobile home park where she and her husband Rollin live. Bishop grabbed her keys and rushed outside to move their cars to higher ground. Within minutes, she was wading through knee-high water. Bishop lives in Tri-Park Cooperative in Brattleboro, Vermont's largest and oldest resident-owned mobile home community. The co-op...
BELLOWS FALLS-Town Meeting is a Vermont tradition that allows ordinary citizens to meet annually with their neighbors to create local legislation and oversee their town's affairs. It is democracy in action at its most basic level. Rockingham residents may recall that voters at last year's Annual Town Meeting discussed whether to continue the tradition of an annual in-person Town Meeting or to switch to voting all articles by Australian ballot. Although the decision was made to continue holding in-person Town...
Canal Street Art Gallery, 23 Canal St., presents their Spring Salon 3rd Edition, opening Friday, March 15, from 5 to 7 p.m. as part of 3rd Friday Gallery Night and running through June 1. It is an exhibition hung in the floor-to-ceiling salon style, this year showing artwork from 38 local artists. The gallery also welcomes back Trish Baggott to the Working Artist Program through April 6. This program is an artist's studio and exhibition space within the gallery, and...
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