GUILFORD — Joyce Marcel's column, “The death of Rose Kagan” [Voices, Jan. 4], is beautifully written and moving. It speaks strongly to those of us who are seeing aging parents through illness and death.
It's a dose of reality, too - the reality of hospitals, even when they are trying hard to do the right thing, and the reality of death when it is not prettified.
Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
Town Finance Director John O'Connor says he anticipates the municipality will end the fiscal year on a positive note despite a deficit on paper. With one month left before closing the ledger on fiscal year 2014, which ended on June 30, O'Connor said he expects additional payments, such as delinquent taxes, and cost savings, such as energy efficiencies, to be accounted for in the coming weeks. “We're in good shape,” he said. On paper, according to O'Connor's preliminary end-of-year report,
It's the time of year again when the Windham County Heat Fund reminds all of the generous people in the county that our less-fortunate friends and neighbors will need your help once again as we approach another heating season. The Windham County Heat Fund was created in 2005 by Richard Davis and me to help people in Windham County, Vt. who are not able to buy enough heating fuel to make it through the winter. We do not give money...
Love to work outside in the summer? Join a small group of artists to paint in the plein air tradition - in the open air. In the spectacular summer beauty of the Vermont countryside, River Gallery School welcomes any and all levels of artists to join them at the Hilltop Montessori campus in the hills of Brattleboro for “Plein Air Landscape: Painting with Pastels Oils” with Helen Schmidt. Amidst Hilltop's quaint pond, rolling hills, fields, budding wildflowers, and buildings, artists...
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