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Common interests, or us-versus-them?
Landlords respond to a proposal to prohibit advance collection of last month's rent
BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...
BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...
SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...
GUILFORD-In the subheading referring to "the 'cruelty' of the budget bill," I understand why you...
Opioid-related fatalities in the state have decreased for the first time since 2014, the Vermont Department of Health announced last week. Newly released preliminary data show a 15 percent decline in the number of deaths attributed to opioid misuse - down from 130 in 2018 to 111 in 2019. In a news release, Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine said that the state's strategies to meet this public health challenge are making a difference, “but even a single death tied to...
Rep. Michelle Bos-Lun (D-Windham-3) is a second-term representative for Westminster, Rockingham, and Brookline. She is a teacher, gardener, forager, and grower of mushrooms. WESTMINSTER-Vermont has a new state symbol: Hericium americanum, also known as bear's head tooth, a white, long-toothed mushroom indigenous to Vermont. Students from kindergarten through eighth grade helped move forward this legislation to help Vermont become the sixth state with a State Mushroom. This new state symbol was determined after I made multiple school visits to middle...
Mainly Music Productions recently announced that Stephan Brandstatter, a local musician, composer, and percussionist, was awarded second place in the open age group (for entrants ages 12 and older) in Creative for Justice, a contest sponsored by the New England Arab American Organization (NEAAO). Selected from multiple dozens of entries, his composition “Sounds of Peace,” performed on pitched brass bowls, was called “soothingly peaceful” by the contest judges. It will be included on his debut CD to be released later...
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