BRATTLEBORO — Thank you for having ears for this story, and the wherewithal to share it with us all.
We are headed into what seems to be a hard winter in a land of hard winters. We have to talk about the homeless in our midst.
And do something.
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
The Aug. 14 meeting in Putney came after news hit the Facebook-sphere that multiple downtown businesses had decided to close or relocate, including Ruggles & Hunt, Candle in the Night, Windham Movement Apparel, Walking with Wolves, Traveling Treasures, ArtRAGEus1, and Twin Flames Taqueria. Speculation around the closings has ranged from the downtown rents being too high, to shop owners catering to tourists and discounting the needs of local consumers, to people not having enough disposable income. In reality, the stores...
Guilford's historic Christ Church, at the corner of Route 5 and Melendy Hill Rd., is celebrating its 200th birthday this year with a benefit concert and silent auction. Festivities begin on Sunday, Aug. 19, at 3 p.m. Proceeds will provide critical funding for the Christ Church Guilford Society to maintain and improve the building, which hasn't had a resident congregation since the 1890s. Internationally renowned instrumentalists Jaime Laredo and Lucy Chapman, violin; Kim Kashkashian, viola; Merry Peckham and Sharon Robinson,
Over that past 16 months, as superintendent of the Windham Southwest Supervisory Union, I have been working with our school boards to come with our district's Act 46 proposal. During this time, John Moran has attended many of the school board meetings as a citizen, even long before he had announced his candidacy to run for state representative. In many discussions with Moran over the past few weeks, I found that he has many of the same concerns and frustrations...
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