When Jon Potter, director of downtown's Latchis business block, first heard the weather forecast this past July, his brain flooded with flashbacks as historic as the predicted precipitation. Potter knew his predecessors had to postpone the formal opening of the Art Deco landmark's anchor theater 85 years ago during the Great New England Hurricane of September 1938. Years later, they had to shutter the adjacent hotel and storefronts for weeks after Tropical Storm Irene wreaked $500,000 in damage in 2011.
The true challenge that I hear day in and day out is this. At the same time that so many Vermonters need to make more money to make life work, and at the same time that so many families seek to bring their kids and loved ones back to Vermont, our employers, from border to border, are eager to find workers with the right educational skills, and they have good money to pay. We have hundreds of creative, entrepreneurial ventures,
GUILFORD-On a 2017 YouTube video, the popular, multistyled, genre-molding English singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran calls Luke Concannon his "childhood hero." "I grew up listening to him, I went on tour with him, doing guitar checking and learning everything there is to know about performing, writing songs, singing, playing guitar," Sheeran says. "So I owe a large amount of my career to him." Since those days, Concannon and his wife and music partner, vocalist Stephanie Hollenberg, have settled in Guilford, entering the...
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