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Time to remove Wright’s barely hidden agenda

By
Whit Blauvelt
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 — Issue 242

BELLOWS FALLS — Deborah Wright must go.

It was her barely hidden agenda that led to the unjust firing of Rockingham Free Public Library Director Célina Houlné. It was her barely hidden contempt for all who oppose her agendas which embarrassed the village of Bellows Falls when she was a trustee, and now the town of Rockingham in her membership on the library board.

It's time to remove the spotlight she craves, and let calm, responsible people whom we may be proud of lead our community.

Voices

The Dems have no one but themselves to blame

By
Dan DeWalt

Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...

Why we lost: the fake-news bubble

By
Steev Lynn

Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...

Mental health care should prioritize clinical outcomes over activism

By
Denise Gebroe

CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...

Building housing and community, together

By
Marcella Eversole

The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...

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For the first time, AIDS Walk honors finisher in second place

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Wednesday, May 23, 2018 — Issue 460

Year after year, Windham County resident Howie Peterson has cheered as the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont has recognized Guilford great-great-grandmother Shirley Squires as its top Walk for Life fundraiser for amassing an eye-popping annual haul of more than $20,000. Peterson, for his part, then has been named the event's second-place finisher with a commendable but comparatively smaller sum of about $1,000. “If I could just raise 10 percent of what Shirley does,” Peterson recalls thinking after last year's walk.

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We’ll always have old Brooklyn in us

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Wednesday, August 7, 2013 — Issue 215

RE: “Life is like a dumpling” [Essay, July 3]: My brother, who's still in the New York City area, just told me that our old neighborhood (Bay Ridge) is also entirely Asian, as is the Episcopalian church we attended back in the '60s. All the families we knew - WASP, Scandinavian, Irish, Italian, Jewish - have moved away. Change is inevitable. But we always have old Brooklyn in us. And I'm always surprised at how many Brattleburghers are from there.

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Wednesday, August 9, 2023 — Issue 726

Hugh Keelan isn't daunted by the herculean task of bringing not one but two of Richard Wagner's most famous operas to the Latchis. He's done it before - twice. Tundi Productions' Wagner in Vermont 2023, the festival's third visit to the Latchis Theatre, will assemble more than 70 performers from near and far from Friday, Aug. 18, to Thursday, Aug. 24. Keelan, the music director and the festival's orchestra conductor, and his wife, General Director Jenna Rae, co-founded Tundi, which...

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