BRATTLEBORO — Shela Linton has always been awesome for Brattleboro. She wants to empower other people.
In light of this kind of commitment, activism becomes clear as humanitarianism.
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...
Between organizing the polls, working with volunteers, and tabulating votes, elections are always a busy time for town clerks. To say this year is even busier is probably an understatement. For the 2020 presidential election, the Vermont Secretary of State's office mailed ballots to all registered voters. From there, voters could return them via the U.S. Postal Service, drop them at their town offices, or wait until Nov. 3 to vote in person. Many of Windham County's town clerks, and...
I thought I was so environmentally virtuous by working from home and sending my words out into cyberspace. But a reader who responded to my recent piece about the carbon footprint of road building [“Our roads, at what cost?,” Column, May 10] burst that bubble. She called my attention “to the huge (and very much neglected) toll that the internet imposes on the environment.” She backed this dire news with a link to a peer-reviewed article published by the MIT...
Vermont author Howard Frank Mosher was fielding questions at a recent conference when a young man began to say to him, “As an aspiring writer...” Mosher interrupted, asking, “What do you mean 'aspiring writer?' I am an aspiring writer too. I am trying to prove myself from one book to the next, and I never feel certain.” This 73-year old aspiring writer hopes to be inspiring when he appears in Brattleboro to launch the publication of God's Kingdom. On Thursday,
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