Alimony reform is much needed. Vermont needs it more than any other state, considering the ex-spouse is allowed to get remarried and still receive the alimony. That is abhorrent.
Bad law is allowing too many people to take advantage.
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...
Organizers are accepting reservations for a Special Christmas Breakfast fundraiser to honor the memory of Deirdre Baker, a local cancer survivor and community volunteer who recently died in a fire. The Dec. 25 event at the Marina Restaurant will feature 100-person seatings at 8 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. for those who call 802-257-7563 no later than Wednesday, Dec. 20. Baker's friends are set to offer a by-donation buffet of scrambled eggs, pancakes, sausage, biscuits, gravy, fruit, coffee, tea, and juice.
Latchis Arts' popular Movies for Kids program presents a special holiday series on Sundays, Dec. 16, 23, and 30, at 11:30 a.m. The series begins Dec. 16 with “Miracle on 34th Street,” the beloved 1947 classic starring Edmund Gwinn, Maureen O'Hara, and a very young Natalie Wood. When a nice old man who claims to be Santa is thought to be crazy, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing. Common...
Our corner of the state could be at the start of the biggest industrial project in Vermont's history: the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee. Someday, right across the street from the Vernon Elementary School, cranes and bulldozers will be taking down radiated buildings and digging up acres of toxic dirt at the nuclear power station. The complex was built in the late 1960s and early '70s, before the laws regulating toxic and hazardous materials were enacted. No one knows for sure...
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