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-The Annual Town Election takes place for all town voters on Town Meeting Day, Tuesday, March 4, and eight candidates are competing for three seats on the Selectboard. The following overviews have been compiled with the help of information and responses from candidates gathered from the League of Women Voters. The Commons and the Brattleboro Reformer are both media partners in the nonpartisan organization's civic engagement efforts. Two candidates vie for three-year seat Oscar Heller is a Representative Town Meeting...
Recent studies find that between 50 percent and 70 percent of American workers feel disengaged and disconnected in their workplaces. Why? Betsy Myers is the founding director of Bentley University's Center for Women and Business, in Waltham, Mass. She also served as the chief operating officer for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and worked in the Clinton White House as deputy assistant to the president. Now, she's working with Fortune 500 companies to help them become stronger and more profitable...
Twilight Music continues its 16th annual Twilight On The Tavern Lawn free concert series on Sunday, Aug. 12, with M.O.D., Molly Steinmark's funk, soul-jazz, hip-hop, and R&B band. As a vocalist/drummer/percussionist/MC/beat boxer and songwriter, Steinmark blends the sounds of jazz, hip-hop, funk, and soul music, backed by a rotating cast of the area's finest musicians. The former singer and percussionist of the bands Groove Shoes, Mo Ambesa, and Dr. Reputation, she is now working as a freelance musician while putting...
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