I was sorry to have missed the Marlboro College Graduate School graduation ceremonies. Matt Dunne's speech [“Grounds for optimism,” Primary Source, Sept. 12] was excellent and truly captured the spirit and ideals of Marlboro.
In our fast-paced, super-media-focused lives, I'm afraid that many people miss the importance of personal and social interaction. Kudos to Dunne for stating it so eloquently.
Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
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The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
A nearly decade-long trend of dwindling community participation will leave voters with few choices at the polls. Voters will decide only one contested race - two, one-year Selectboard seats - in the March 1 town election. The rest of the more than 60 combined open municipal, Representative Town Meeting, and school district seats are uncontested. Local business owner Avery Schwenk is running for one of the two Selectboard seats. His two opponents, incumbent David Gartenstein and former Selectboard Chair Dick...
We, the members of the Windham County legislative delegation of Vermont, decry the hatred and violence that happened in Charlottesville several weeks ago. We wholeheartedly condemn the racism, white supremacism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia that are finding encouragement at the highest levels of our government. We call on all citizens who love our state and country to stand against these dangerous and un-American values, which threaten the very foundation of our democracy. As Vermonters, we are proud of our history of...
The art of Matthew Ivan Smith will be on display at the Wardsboro Public Library, 170 Main St., for the month of September during library hours. Smith is a “self-taught” artist and a grandson of the composer Ernest Bloch. He showed a remarkable gift in music early, but after spending his summers in Vermont, he became fascinated by the beauty around him. He began to draw in pencil on small pads - hills and trees at first, then adding a...
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