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...
Local businesses are cutting their electricity bills, thanks to Efficiency Vermont's newLIGHT program. The program helps businesses of all sizes with either fluorescent tube, T12, or HID High-Bay lighting fixtures. It helps them access rebates to replace up to 200 fixtures by working with local contractors or distributors. According to an Efficiency Vermont press release, T12 fluorescent lamps are common in many businesses throughout Vermont. They are usually four- to eight-foot-long tubes mounted horizontally in a ceiling fixture and are...
Our recent current events, our current White House administration, and our federal Republican congressional “civil servants” all point to the dismal fact that we, everyday citizens, have failed in the education of our young, especially our young men. At this time of heightened public energy and intention for a better future, I suggest we focus some of this momentum on improving how we nurture our young, that they might become whole, healthy human beings with compassionate regard for others. As...
Vermont Humanities will present “Migration Pathways: Stories of Yesterday and Today” on Saturday, Oct. 29, at 2 p.m., in the Main Reading Room of the Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street. Andrew Ingall, creator of the project “Warlé, Yesterday, and Today,” will deliver a slide talk and storytelling exercise inspired by the lives and legacy of Warren Kronemeyer and Leon Ingall, a Vermont couple who were entrepreneurs and civic leaders in Townshend during the 1980s and '90s. Ingall was a...
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