GUILFORD — RE: “A community photographer, mentor, and friend” [Editorial, April 3]:
Roger Katz was one of the good guys, one of the best. Very sad to say goodbye.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
There likely won't be any school-merger votes in the near future for one of Vermont's biggest supervisory unions. At a meeting on Feb. 24 held at Guilford Central School, most members of Windham Southeast Supervisory Union's (WSESU) Act 46 Study Committee said they believe it is no longer feasible to pursue an “accelerated” merger of all of the union's school districts. Instead, they advocated taking more time to pursue other merger options. The committee didn't take a vote on the...
BRATTLEBORO-Vermont Theatre Company will present Cyrano at Retreat Farm on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 3 and 4, as part of their Children's Classics at the Farm series. Additional performances will be held at the Evening Star Grange in Dummerston Center on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 6 and 7. All performances will begin at 6 p.m. This is rescheduled from the original August performance dates at Retreat Farm. Cyrano tells the story of Cyrano de Bergerac, France's greatest poet and swordsman.
The draft Windham Regional Commission Energy Plan is disturbing, because its wording and its biases would effectively exclude economically efficient, acutely needed, renewable wind energy almost everywhere in the county where it would be feasible to site. Yet, I have some sympathies with industrial-wind-energy opponents, with those who would like to preserve our ridgelines intact. Is there any middle ground to advocate for both? * * * Though I moved to southern Vermont only 15 years ago, I have been...
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