BRATTLEBORO — Congratulations to you all on a terrific issue. One hundred issues is great cause for celebration. Here's to the next 100!
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
If it's been a while since you've hung out with 11th- and 12th-graders, or if most of what you now know about students that age comes through the media, talk to Linda Rood. Rood teaches English to juniors and seniors at Leland & Gray Union High School, and she knows intimately what students that age are really like. Or talk to some of the seniors in her Advanced Placement literature class, and ask them about Huckleberry Finn. If you get...
The Chapel Hill, N.C.-based multi-instrumentalist duo Violet Bell will co-bill the Stage 33 Live listening room with The Milkhouse Heaters on Sunday, June 19, in a limited-seating 4 p.m. matinee with a special discounted ticket price of $10 in advance through stage33live.com or $15 at the door. The band Violet Bell describes themselves as “re-wilding Americana with a lush, sinuous sound woven from folk, soul, bluegrass, and jazz with notes of blues, world, and classical.” Omar Ruiz-Lopez was born in...
Newfane Town Moderator Deborah Lee Luskin commented here recently [June 6] that “in Vermont, gods don't vote.” Her piece was ostensibly about the recent decision of the Vermont Superior Court to rule as unconstitutional an explicitly Christian prayer at a town meeting. I am a Christian pastor, so it might surprise Luskin to know that I support that ruling. I have reminded others often that civic observances must respect the religious diversity of the entire community. A Christian prayer is...
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