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.
Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
On Rolf Parker's first day as a tobacco prevention specialist working at Leland & Gray Union High School, he learned cigarettes weren't his only foe. Parker looked on as a school administrator showed him a cardboard box with devices confiscated from students. Those little electronic cartridges, which looked like computer flash drives, each held liquid containing the same amount of nicotine as an entire pack of cigarettes, plus a flavoring agent to make the contents taste like some approximation of...
I write to address the proposal for a Black Lives Matter mural in Putney, on the roadway in front of the school. We are in the midst of a time of trials in our world, and our lovely small Vermont villages are not immune. How will we respond? Who do we want to be? In particular, we white people who have long felt entitled to be comfortable and to enjoy all the rights and privileges that our area has to...
Beginning this season, Jonathan Biss joins Mitsuko Uchida as co-artistic director of Marlboro Music. Biss says it feels “wonderful” to pick up the reins at Marlboro. “This is a very special place which, unlike the rest of the world these days, takes things slowly and gradually,” says Biss. “Marlboro is an ideal environment for musicians to learn as much as they can about music. The life of a musician may be terrific, but it can also be frantic, as he...
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