PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
BRATTLEBORO-Gov. Phil Scott has proposed eliminating Vermont's successful universal school meals program. As a parent...
The town of Rockingham has notched a major victory in its years-long tax battle with energy giant TransCanada. The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled that TransCanada's Bellows Falls hydroelectric station should be valued at $127.4 million, just under the $130 million appraisal advocated by the town and set by a lower-court judge. The justices' ruling stands in stark contrast to TransCanada's proposed $84 million valuation. Though not all of that tax value lies within Rockingham's borders, the majority of it...
I am compelled to comment on Cathy Bergmann's letter [Voices, Dec. 12] on the subject of the Bellows Falls Warming Shelter. I find Ms. Bergmann's letter to be rambling, almost to the point of incoherence. We are told we are to be informed about the facts but instead we are provided in the most part with a litany of opinion and selfserving value judgments. The one comment I can heartily endorse is her statement: “Now I am truly confused.” The...
Aspiring authors have an opportunity to shine as Write Action announces its 14th annual Poetry and Prose Writing Contest. First-place winners in both categories will be awarded $100, second-place winners $50, and third-place winners $25 each, and the opportunity to read at this year's Literary Festival. Entries will be judged anonymously, according to a news release. Judges this year include poetry judge New Hampshire Poet Laureate Alice Fogel; prose judge Joyce Marcel of The Commons and Vermont Business Magazine; and...
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