RE: “A good session for our lawmakers” [Editorial, May 16]:
A “good session” if you call redistributing other people's money good.
Wendy Harrison is one of Windham County's two state senators. BRATTLEBORO-We're talking a lot about...
LEYDEN, MASS.-I was lucky to have been born in Boston in 1947 and never served...
WARDSBORO-I agree, we do need facts. Have you heard of CWD (chronic wasting disease)? It's...
The writer is president of Vermont Friends of Israel. ATHENS-In response to Bert Picard's criticisms...
BRATTLEBORO-On this damp and gray Memorial Day, the traditional service in front of the town's war memorial at the Town Common was moved indoors to American Legion Post 5 on Linden Street. For incoming Post 5 commander Jay Mills, it was the first Memorial Day service he was in charge of, and he said that a lot of changes had to be made on the fly, starting with a last-minute cancellation by the keynote speaker. Instead, Post 5 Chaplain and...
When you're in high school, you meet people who make an impression on you for the rest of your life. For some people, it's a coach or a teacher. For me, it was it was someone on the fringes of society. Stan the Can Man worked the edges of the high school ball field on the prowl for returnable cans and bottles, an insurgent in an undeclared war on poverty and mental illness. Nobody knew where he lived. He could...
Brooks Memorial Library hosts the 10th season of Vermont Reads with a series of poetry readings from the Vermont Reads book “Poetry 180,” compiled by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. At the event - set for Thursday, Oct. 3, at 7 p.m., in the Library's Main Room - Guilford poet Ken Hebson has organized local published poets Arlene Distler, Barbara Benoit, Charles Butterfield, Wyn Cooper, Ed Rayher, and Tim Mayo to read their favorite poems from the book. The...
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