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.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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The Vermont Legislature has approved a two-year extension of COVID-19-era options for how and when the state’s 247 cities and towns decide upon local leaders, spending, and special articles. Bill H.42 mirrors legislation passed in 2021 and 2022 that allowed municipalities to make short-term, pandemic-safe changes to Town Meeting — traditionally held on or around the first Tuesday in March — and gather governing boards solely online. “With the rising cases of Covid variants, there’s a real question in a...
Guilford Center Stage continues into its second year with spring and fall productions of plays with strong connections to Guilford, continuing its mission to present place-based theater on the stage at Broad Brook Grange. The new theater project debuted last fall with a production of the comedy, Tourists Accommodated, by Vermont author Dorothy Canfield Fisher, who often visited Guilford. A pair of one-acts by Guilford playwright Michael Nethercott opens the 2016 season in early June. At the other end of...
BELLOWS FALLS-I consider myself fortunate to have graduated from Marlboro College and settled in Windham County. It's put me in the realm of incredibly smart and empathetic people. (If you're reading this, that probably includes you!) Every once in a while, though, a few individuals rise to the top. Emilie Kornheiser is one of them. We are lucky to have Emilie representing us - all of us - in the Legislature. In the short time she has been in office,
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