BRATTLEBORO — I hope we can encourage Opal Robinson to get back into her writing or her art - it is therapeutic.
My hope is that the bullying in the local schools will somehow be stopped.
So glad she's home safe. Good luck to her and the family.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
“Marlboro Music has been here in good times and in bad for 70 years,” says Marlboro Music Manager Philip Maneval. “And we'll be here for another 70 years and beyond.” Despite the shuffling of real estate deeds, Marlboro Music “is committed to protecting” the campus of the now-closed Marlboro College - the place that the festival has called home since 1951. “We know and love it; there are abundant and rich legacies here and we want to protect those,” Maneval...
The Vermont Jazz Center is excited to present Cole Porter Fellow and pianist Emmet Cohen, who will be performing live from the VJC in his working trio, with Russell Hall (acoustic bass) and Kyle Poole (drums). The trio will be joined by a special guest, guitar legend Mark Whitfield. Cohen's list of awards and accomplishments is impressive, but these days he's attracting a particularly high level of attention due to his weekly livestream Facebook concerts. As of this writing, he...
I don't enjoy roller coasters - never have, not since I went on one that looked like a giant squid at Rye Playland when I was about 10 or 11. I can still recall the sickly smell of cotton candy, salty air, and humidity that greeted me as they opened the door to let us out of the cage we banged around in for three minutes. I felt as though I was walking on marbles until I white-knuckled the railing...
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