Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...
CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...
The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
Drop In Center, Morningside Shelter need tents, sleeping bags BRATTLEBORO – The Brattleboro Area Drop In Center and Morningside Shelter are conducting a tent and sleeping bag drive in response to the closing of the winter Overflow Shelter at the First Baptist Church. The Overflow Shelter closed for the season on the morning of May 1 after its longest season yet – the shelter opened on Nov. 1, nearly one month earlier than in years past. With Morningside Shelter operating...
Vermont has never elected a woman to be our state's Attorney General, but we have the opportunity this year! My cousin, Charity Clark, is running in the August primary to be the Democratic candidate on the ballot in November. I believe she is the most qualified candidate for this important job. With so much at stake at this moment - reproductive freedom, public safety, criminal justice reform, environmental protection - it is critical that we elect an attorney general who...
Poet Wendell Berry once said, “If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.” This simple yet provocative idea has been at the center of the Hilltop Montessori Middle School's seven-week-long Sense of Place study that has taken its students far beyond the classroom to explore, up close and personal, the true meaning of “community.” Hilltop's middle school students have immersed themselves in a comprehensive study of both the ordinary and the extraordinary people, places, and...
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