RE: “Visions, values, and tragedy” [Special Focus, July 17]:
After two years, reading this story breaks my heart. Richard Gagnon, thank you for writing. My prayers for you, and for everyone in Brattleboro, continue.
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...
When describing the Vermont Chamber of Commerce's lobbying efforts, Betsy Bishop employs the standard devices - pie charts, anecdotes, and a few “offense” and “defense” football analogies. But the chamber's president also has a relatively new tool, and it's got no pictures or brightly colored graphs. Instead, it's a dense, still-expanding document running to nearly three pages and featuring more than 50 bullet points detailing taxes, fees, and mandates that have been imposed recently on Vermont residents and businesses -
Donald Trump's militarizing Independence Day, subjecting children and adults to, yes, concentration camps, and defying the courts are not events that can be easily ignored. However, his firing climate-change scientists or banishing them to a Midwest gulag is a lot easier to overlook. So is his rescinding food and drug safety regulations, rolling back health-care protections for LGBTQ patients, foreclosing on working homeowners, destroying public education, and compromising the country's air, water, and wildlife. There's more, and it signals the...
Continuing a holiday tradition, Latchis Arts presents the 2003 comedy classic Elf with admission by donation on Saturday, Dec. 14, at 4:30 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 15, at 11:30 a.m., at the Latchis Theatre. Reminding us that the “the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear,” the film stars Will Ferrell as a man-sized elf who is forced to leave the North Pole after inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community because of ungainly...
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