Brattleboro is getting a shining Starr who has led, inspired, and ignited Building Brighter Futures for Broome, an agency that offers early childhood literacy strategies and supports!
Thank you, Starr LaTronica, for sharing your gifts and passion!
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...
“'Black Lives Matter' is the baseline,” says Amber Arnold, cofounder of SUSU Healing Collective. “We more than matter. How do we make sure our people are not just surviving but thriving?” With that goal in mind, SUSU Healing Collective started a GoFundMe campaign at the end of May to raise money to buy community-supported agriculture (CSA) shares for local families of color. In just five days, the campaign surpassed its goal of $12,000, and 22 families were awarded shares of...
Each year, the Friends of the Wardsboro Library sponsors a raffle to benefit the support of the Gloria Danforth Memorial Building, the home of the Wardsboro Public Library. This year's prize for “The Best Raffle Ever” is a one-of-a-kind 37 1/2 inch by 37 1/2 inch wall hanging titled “Simply Vermont,” depicting the icons of Vermont. It was designed, pieced, and quilted by Wardsboro fiber artist Christy Foote-Smith. Foote-Smith is currently focused on art quilts. She and her husband, Bob,
Censorship. It's a word, an idea that ignites the ire of people who care about the arts. We all know censorship is bad - it's the stuff of fascists, or worse: of prudes and numbskulls. Rejecting censorship is righteous. It reveals a person's high-mindedness and sophistication. Defending artistic freedom is easy, but defending your right to work with an alleged “child molester” (as former Brattleboro Union High School teacher Zeke Hecker described himself in a letter to a survivor)? Not...
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