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.
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
The first non-Marlboro-College program to take place on its former campus drew 20 fencing athletes, along with seven coaches and a few parents, to the property now owned by Democracy Builders Fund and its Degrees of Freedom program. Students of the Tim Morehouse Fencing Club trained on campus as part of the school's annual summer camp program. The founder of the eponymous program, Morehouse, who earned a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing, said that holding the...
For libraries, summertime means summer reading. This year's theme is “Build A Better World,” and the Children's Room at Brooks Memorial Library will be busy providing new programs and continuing with previous popular summer programs, according to a news release. This year, Brooks will offer a summer challenge for kids, ages 4-12. This program offers kids the chance to earn points for reading, being read to, or listening to audiobooks. Kids can also earn points by attending library programs. All...
As I sat down to the first night Passover Seder I attended on my campus, I was offered a sheet with four recommended discussion questions. One question stood out to my friends and me: “What enslaves you?” We laughed over it at the time, at the sometimes-dark Jewish humor of the discussion of how oppressed our ancestors were, talk that always comes up with Passover. Yet, this is a worthwhile question to pose. We sit down yearly to remember the...
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