BRATTLEBORO — Another excellent column by Joyce Marcel [“Kunin calls for a truce in the war on women,” April 25].
One minor correction: There are three women justices on the Supreme Court, not two. (We need them all, and more.)
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Budgets totaling $2.059 billion for Vermont's 14 hospitals were approved Thursday by Steve Kimbell, commissioner of the Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration (BISHCA). That figure amounted to a 4.6 percent increase over the 2011 budgets, but the increase dropped to 3.8 percent if you didn't count the roughly $16 million in provider taxes assessed against the hospitals. The system cost thereby came in just under the 4.0 percent figure mandated by the Legislature in 2010; the...
RE: “Shame on BF for memorial fund vote” [Letters, May 29]: The very clear, exact wording and intent for the Sarah Burr Howard Memorial Fund set forth in 1895 can be read on page 477 of The History of the Town of Rockingham, Vermont by Lyman Simpson Hayes (available as a free download at Google Books). Part of what is written there is that the Bellows Falls Village Corporation will “keep and hold the same [sums donated by Luther G.
Visual artist, graffiti scholar, and educator Will Kasso Condry of Brandon has been selected as the first recipient of The Vermont Prize, a new endeavor aimed at celebrating and supporting the best visual art being made in Vermont today. A collaborative initiative of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC), Burlington City Arts (BCA), The Current, and the Hall Art Foundation, The Vermont Prize is juried by one representative from each of the four partner organizations and one special guest...
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