RE: “What happens when a library loses its spirit?” [Column, Sept. 25]:
What a beautiful and resonant description of what we love about and get from libraries!
Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
Good day and Happy New Year to you, fine readers of Windham County! I hope that 2019 is a year of connection, success, growth, and the simple peace and joy that comes from appreciating the little things with which we've been blessed in this up-and-down life we continue to live. I'm wishing you all the best! As for the next week, we will enjoy fair weather this Wednesday and Thursday before we have to deal with another storm system that...
Shortly after, we co-founded the Institute for Nuclear Host Communities, launched shortly after the Vermont Yankee closure announcement late last summer. We had seen from a preliminary survey that very little had been studied about these events and, from our observation, that most closings of nuclear plants left their host communities and regions worse off than they had been before the plant was built. That insight, plus the realization that there was no shared knowledge about closure negotiations, meant that...
Local singer-songwriter Sam Creigh is the featured performer for the Nov. 15 edition of Stage 33 Live's series “Third Thursdays @ 33.” He'll be performing original music from his albums Green Mountain Flyer and Wanted Man, and will be offering free signed copies of both CDs to interested audience members. No cover charge. There will be a tip jar for Creigh, and donations to help Stage 33 Live keep going are gratefully accepted. Creigh grew up in the country. His...
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