This story was a great read, and it brought back many memories.
I'm looking forward to the Putney Grade School reunion, and seeing all of you. Thank you for all your hard work.
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Annie Rose is driving home from visiting her son, who has been incarcerated for 15 months on a gun and drug charge. “He's in a minimum-security prison because he's never been in trouble before. I know that he's done illegal things before, but this is the first time he has been caught,” says the 75-year-old grandmother. Her son turned 54 years old the previous day. “We talked much longer than we usually do,” reports Rose, smiling. “It was a meaningful...
Vermont is being flooded by COVID-19 hot-spotters looking to buy property. Gov. Scott ended quarantine rules for them recently. Now, sociopath real estate agents in Brattleboro are trying to bring them into people's homes. Vermont's current emergency directive - “Realtors and landlords may not require occupants of a home or apartment to allow potential buyers or renters into their home” - is little different from a standard consent clause in a lease. It makes tenants choose their lives or a...
The Rock River Players present The Fantasticks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones July 19-23 at Williamsville Hall on Dover Road. The Fantasticks tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play The Romancers (Les Romanesques) by Edmond Rostand, about two neighboring parents who, by pretending to feud, trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love. The mothers - fathers in most productions - hire traveling actors to stage a mock abduction, so that Matt can heroically “save”
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