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 Brattleboro Area Interfaith Clergy Association and its partners took a hot afternoon to clean swastikas spray-painted on rocks in an abandoned quarry near the West River. A group of about a dozen people representing Windham County's interfaith community did the work last Friday, including the Rev. Lise Sparrow, pastor of Guilford Community Church, the Rev. Phillip Wilson of St. Michael's Episcopal Church, the Rev. Cheryl Meachen and her son, Joshua, of First United Methodist Church, the Rev. Barbro Hansson...
Let me suggest that nothing be done about the dismantling of the dam at Sweet Pond other than to allow beavers to come in and build a new dam. Beavers are very skillful engineers and have been known to construct very large, expert dams. They also maintain their dams. This would cost the taxpayers nothing. A few lodges would go up in the prime real estate thus created. The wildlife and fish could return! What about road flooding? Beavers only...
Epsilon Spires will screen Fresh Kill in the outdoor Backlot Cinema on Friday, Aug. 20, at 8 p.m. Artistic Director Jamie Mohr said in a news release that the film, which splices fact and fiction, is named for the actual Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island and “playfully extrapolates from our world in a sci-fi romp.” Fresh Kill follows lovers Claire and Shareen, their daughter Honey, and their network of family and friends as they are thrown into confrontation with...
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