I am so sorry to lose Pat Smith. She was the voice of the Reformer for me, and always helpful.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan has sanctioned Marlboro College's transfer of assets to Emerson College in Boston. The Attorney General's Office (AGO) also okayed the sale of the campus to Democracy Builders Fund (DBF), which intends to launch a new school, Degrees of Freedom (DOF), which is designing a low-residency college program with an anticipated opening in 2021. After the state approval was issued July 20, both transactions are expected to take place this week, according to Marlboro College President...
Bonnie Mennell's recent work, “What has been offered - 2016,” is now on display at the Putney Public Library, 55 Main St., through the end of September. According to a news release, it seeks to offer “the simple inherent forms, colors, beauty in what catches her eyes, her heart, and her tactile senses as she moves through her days - be it scraps of paper, pieces of tree bark, grasses, seed pods, shells, stones, broken bits of loved objects, sticks,
With the Vermont Legislature days away from adjournment for the year, John Walters, a reporter for Seven Days and the alternative weekly newspaper's political columnist, joined me on May 16 to discuss the big bills awaiting approval by the Legislature this week, their last week of the session. We also discussed how the GOP's national reputation appears to have changed the Democratic Party in Vermont. Walters is a longtime journalist and spent many years as a news anchor and host...
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