BELLOWS FALLS — Please cease all quoting of Deb Wright. She is simply a nuisance. Amplifying her rants does not help, in any sense. She should have no spotlight.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
She was born six months before RMS Titanic sailed on her fateful maiden voyage. Her lifetime encompasses two world wars, women's suffrage, the civil rights movement, the Atomic Age, the Space Age, the Digital Age, and the rest of the changes and advances of a tumultuous century. Vera Harrington has seen plenty in more than a century. Now a resident of Thompson House, Harrington got an early start on celebrating her 103rd birthday with a lunch at The Marina restaurant...
In connection with the exhibit “Charlie Hunter: Semaphore,” currently on view at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC), Hunter will give a free plein-air painting demonstration on Saturday, Aug. 7, at 2 p.m., followed by a tour of his nearby studio. The demonstration takes place at the Bellows Falls train station at 54 Depot St. Space is limited; register at brattleboromuseum.org. Hunter is well known throughout the country for paintings that depict decaying American infrastructure, including railroads and bridges.
Of the many sentiments offered to me in recent weeks, these words, spoken by a recently released prison inmate with tears in his eyes, are ones I don't think I'll ever forget. “I been there, brother. I'm feelin' it with ya.” The Squirrel Hill community of Pittsburgh (the actual neighborhood of Mister Rogers) has always been a tightly knit set of neighborhoods where, it seems, everybody is connected in some way to everybody else. Within the community, individual synagogues constitute...
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