Love this story! Ana was my son Leo's preschool teacher. I am so happy for the family and the amazing resourcefulness and commitment that brought them all back together. So happy for Ana.
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...
Candidates, volunteers, and members of the Windham County Democratic Committee stood 6 feet apart while chatting about the Nov. 3 presidential election over slices of apple pie and cups of apple cider. They had just driven in approximately 70 cars, decorated with banners, streamers, campaign signs, and balloons, looping Windham County on Sunday, as part of the committee's Ridin' with Biden get-out-the-vote event. The travelers started from Guilford County Store in Algiers Village on Route 5. The caravan drove north...
Today - June 14, 2021 - began for me with a conversation about the ending of the hotel program that has housed Vermonters experiencing homelessness through the pandemic. For us, there has been a sense that this is not for us, but rather to protect people who have homes and are able to hold down gainful employment. That this program was a way to ensure that “working families” didn't have to risk catching Covid (or homelessness) from Vermont's most vulnerable...
Rockingham Free Public Library presents “Tour 350: An American Journey in Words, Music, and Images,” on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m. In 2010, Jesse Peters from Saxtons River resolved to raise awareness about climate change by mounting a solo, 4,000-mile cross-country bike ride. Peters towed his supplies and guitar in a trailer behind his old mountain bike, riding from Salisbury Beach, Mass., to Placerville, Calif., over nearly three months, averaging 60 miles per day. Along the way he collected...
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