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Voices

Crime novel worthy of admiration

By
Howard Fairman
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 — Issue 684

PUTNEY — Retired Brattleboro Police Department Captain Mark Carignan's premier novel Out from Under: George V. Higgins would have admired it.

If you know who he was, that's my review.

If you don't, read both.

Voices

What has the U.S. done?

By
Kate Kenner

GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...

Keeping faith in ‘interesting times’

By
The Beloved Community VT

The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...

Election results: obvious, but still shocking

By
M.N. Scherbatskoy

WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...

We’ve become a business with a community problem

By
Hannah Sorila

Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...

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News

Neighbors take Putney project protest to Vt. Supreme Court

By
Virginia Ray
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 — Issue 757

Less than a month after their third appeal was turned down, two neighbors of the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust's proposed affordable housing community on Alice Holway Drive have filed a fourth appeal - this time to the Vermont Supreme Court. Laura Campbell and Deborah Lazar have made the appeal, filed by attorney Hal Stevens, protesting the planned 25 units of mixed-income housing in two buildings on land on Alice Holway Drive next to the Putney Community Garden and Putney...

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Voices

Vermont legal cannabis growth will need healthy soil

By
Tim Wessel
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 — Issue 641

A number of people, from Aristotle to Jean-Jacques Rousseau to John Chardin, are credited with a good quote: “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” I always try to keep this wisdom in mind when I am working toward a policy goal that is encumbered by far too many missteps and seems to be taking longer than is bearable, remembering that reaching the goal will produce a sweet and nourishing reward. I've been thinking about this quote lately while...

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Arts

Poetry reading by Ortner, Hauptman in Putney

Wednesday, June 7, 2023 — Issue 718

The Putney Public Library, 55 Main St., hosts two well known Vermont poets on Tuesday, June 13, at 6:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Terry Hauptman will read from her poems that incorporate many cultures both past and present, and Toni Ortner will read from her most recent book, Shadows and Silhouettes (Kelsay Books, 2022), which is a collection of her early work. Ortner lives in Putney and has had 29 books published by small...

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