After multiple Selectboard meetings, a petition, and an hour-long public information session on whether taxpayers should fund a new central fire station, on August 9, voters overwhelmingly chose to support the West Dummerston Volunteer Fire Department. According to Town Clerk Laurie Frechette, the tally was 401 yes, 69 no, and two blank ballots. Fire department officials have said that the current central station is inadequate for modern firefighting needs. Some of their trucks are too large to fit inside the...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present folk music duos Sons of Town Hall and Alice Howe & Freebo on Friday, March 7, at 7:30 p.m. Sons of Town Hall, the transatlantic folk duo of American songwriter-author David Berkeley and British songwriter-producer Ben Parker, is creating a new performance genre. Part live concept album, part performance art, they conjure their mythic universe under the aliases Josiah Chester Jones and George Ulysses Brown, 19th-century vagabonds who travel the world in...
How many of us on the Left or among the sane have been watching the Democrats with an overwhelming sense of doom? As we observe Republicans daily threatening to behead, hang, dismember, shoot, impeach, and/or jail every opponent who stands in the way of their drive to absolute power, the Democrats continue to act and preach business as usual. As repellent as it is to watch the news unfold daily, if you are interested in a livable future, it is...
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