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!
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...
CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...
The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
It will be a very different Selectboard in Brattleboro. After one of the most competitive races in some time, Kate O'Connor defeated Ben “Spoon” Agave, 985-664, for a three-year seat on the Selectboard. Two veterans of town government took the two open one-year seats. Former Selectboard member John Allen was the top vote-getter with 710, followed by Town School Board member David Schoales, with 580 votes. Schoales just edged out Ian Kiehle, who got 564 votes, and Donna Macomber, who...
Vermonters are capable of choice; they make excellent choices from many thousands of options daily, and they benefit from their ability to select one from multiple alternatives. VPR, Vermont PBS, WCAX, VtDigger.org, and all the rest of the debate hosts have no right to keep candidates from competing and no right to keep the people from altering their government by competing for votes in elections. The aforementioned press outlets say their freedoms of the press allows them to decide who...
Even with more than four decades as a touring professional in the music business, Claudia Schmidt still faces the dilemma of how to market herself. “People most often put me in the category of singer/songwriter,” Schmidt explains. “But I sing other people's songs too. In fact, I consider myself a pretty good jazz singer. “Nonetheless, the folk-music people are hesitant to hire a jazz singer, and those in jazz won't take me seriously because I come from the world of...
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