RE: “Coming home” [Arts, June 13].
Grants Ferry is a very good read. I especially liked David Chase's sneaky sense of humor.
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...
Vermont's largest freight railroad has a new owner. On Dec. 19, 2012, the federal Surface Transportation Board (STB) approved the purchase of RailAmerica Inc., the company that owns the New England Central Railroad (NECR), by Genesee & Wyoming, Inc., another holding company of many short-line railroads across the country, for $1.37 billion. The takeover of the St. Albans-based NECR, which operates 394 miles of track between the Canadian border just south of Montreal and New London, Conn., became effective Dec.
Given the recent close call at Fair Haven Union High School, I wonder if David Van Deusen remains as sanguine about the continuation of the status quo in Vermont concerning questions of gun legislation as he maintains. While it may, by the greatest good fortune, remain just below the surface here, the specter of mass killing is unrelieved in the rest of the country. It should be clear that the present situation is intolerable, and political calculations must be set...
Friends of Music at Guilford's annual Midwinter Musicale begins at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 17, in the sanctuary of Guilford Community Church, 38 Church Dr. Appropriately for Valentine's week, the program is a multimedia consideration of love, as it is woven inevitably through the weft of life and loss, and it includes elements of music, movement, and the spoken word. Last summer, Jessica Gelter, a former trustee and occasional soloist for Friends of Music, proposed performing David Lang's Death...
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