DUMMERSTON — Many thanks to Ian Diamondstone and The Commons for the fine article on Mrs. Dalem and Dalem's Chalet. Very well done!
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-MaryJane Renaud Giroux remembers the day in 1961 when her father, Hyacinth Renaud, came home from work with some news. "I bought the Estey buildings," he told her mother, Louise. "With what?" she replied. Giroux recalls the story, laughing at it as her father would have. More than 60 years after that conversation, vestiges of the Estey Organ Company are front and center in her home, which is decorated with several framed blueprints of the instruments, including a sketch of...
It is appalling to see Tristan Roberts blatantly trading on the death of someone, but even more heinously, on the death of George Floyd. This candidate's entire piece was ostensibly to illuminate for Windham County voters, his motivations for running for office. And yet he spent the majority of it talking about the tragedy of Mr. Floyd and a first responder bystander, while managing to throw in some tidbits about hosting a “Black guest” on his “farm.” What purpose did...
BRATTLEBORO-The Baker Street Readers will present three stories from their album The Poe Project on Halloween Night, Thursday, Oct. 31, at 7 p.m. at the Hooker-Dunham Theater, 139 Main St. The Baker Street Readers were founded in 2018 by James Gelter and Tony Grobe with the mission of presenting readings of various authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries, most notably Sherlock Holmes mysteries by Arthur Conan Doyle. In October 2020, the Readers released The Poe Project, an album...
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