GUILFORD — Many thanks to the generous and caring staff at Hannaford for making our shopping trip there such an enjoyable and successful event.
We prepared 28 baskets, each of which provided a complete Thanksgiving dinner for a local family.
Wendy Harrison is one of Windham County's two state senators. BRATTLEBORO-We're talking a lot about...
LEYDEN, MASS.-I was lucky to have been born in Boston in 1947 and never served...
WARDSBORO-I agree, we do need facts. Have you heard of CWD (chronic wasting disease)? It's...
The writer is president of Vermont Friends of Israel. ATHENS-In response to Bert Picard's criticisms...
When Deirdre Baker was named grand marshal of this town's Fourth of July parade in 2012, she didn't let that morning's storm clouds dampen her spirits. She already had weathered too much for that. The year before, Baker was planning a free public Christmas breakfast when, set to celebrate her 50th birthday, she was unable to shake a stuffy nose. Doctors said it wasn't a cold or allergies, but instead sinus cancer. To reach and remove it, they'd have to...
I'm usually a fan of petitions. They're an easy way to make your voice heard, especially these days when, on a national level, it sometimes feels like our leaders don't share our values. But lately a local social-media petition has been trying my patience a bit. The petition urging our town to “End Brattleboro's Municipal Use of Heating Oil” points out, fairly, that our town emits large amounts of carbon dioxide from burning fuel oil and that we should be...
Poets Don McLean and Tom Ragle will read “Our Favorite Poems,” their second collaborative reading, on Thursday, Nov. 19, at Guilford Community Church at 7 p.m. Admission is by a donation in any amount, to benefit the work of the Community Church. This program follows Ragle and McLean's initial program of sonnets last May at the church. On this occasion, each reader has chosen from his favorite poems, spanning four centuries. Ragle served as president of Marlboro College from 1958...
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