Where did FairPoint ever say that it would cut pay by one-third?
What a dumb letter. Get the facts straight before writing, please.
Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
Good day to you, hearty and heart-full New Englanders! The main weather headline for southern Vermont is the continuance and persistence of our national weather pattern. The large-scale global patterns continue to produce a ripping zonal Pacific jet stream. What does that mean? A “zonal jet stream” refers to a west-to-east fast-moving river of air several miles up above our heads that directs storms across the globe. This, combined with a persistent area of high pressure (known as a ridge)
This accelerating season of racial violence has not triggered, so much as revealed, the deeply held racial biases that can kill innocents on both sides of the blue line when they are not explicitly examined. I believe no one in the United States comes to adulthood without some problems and biases around race. Active engagement with what are often unconsidered prejudices, along with purposefully stressing that the police are servants of the people, not the other way around, is absolutely...
Fabric, clay, and mixed media artist Sharon Myers will present an exhibit of her latest work, “The Wedding Gown Project,” on Sunday, April 19, from 2 to 5 p.m., at the C.F. Church building on 90 Flat St. (look for door 7). Myers is pursuing an MFA at Heartwood College of Art in Kennebunk, Maine, and the exhibit is her master's thesis project. Although she has been a quilter and weaver for many years, Myers has said she wanted to...
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