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.
Wendy Harrison is one of Windham County's two state senators. BRATTLEBORO-We're talking a lot about...
LEYDEN, MASS.-I was lucky to have been born in Boston in 1947 and never served...
WARDSBORO-I agree, we do need facts. Have you heard of CWD (chronic wasting disease)? It's...
The writer is president of Vermont Friends of Israel. ATHENS-In response to Bert Picard's criticisms...
Citing the impact of new enrollment regulations under Act 46, Leland & Gray Union Middle and High School officials have endorsed more than $200,000 in cuts for next fiscal year's budget. The fiscal 2018 spending plan, which will be subject to a five-town vote in February, includes the elimination of one full-time science teaching position. But Leland & Gray's school board declined to make even deeper staffing cuts after hearing protests from a crowd that packed into Dutton Gym on...
LINDA HECKER is professor emerita at Landmark College, where she spent 32 years of her 50-year teaching career. GUILFORD-It's been three years since a Voices essay in this paper turned my life upside down and made me an outcast in our community. Follow-up articles in the local press amplified my disgrace by quoting false allegations about me without attempting to verify them. I hoped that those who knew me would rise to my defense, but the few who spoke out...
The Tenores de Aterúe is a quartet of four American singers, each with a background in folk polyphony and early music, who perform from the island of Sardinia in Italy “cantu a tenore,” a form of polyphonic singing. On Jan. 19, Tenores de Aterúe will appear for the first time in Brattleboro, when the group performs a concert of cantu a tenòre at 118 Elliot at 7 p.m. “Sardinian cantu a tenòre is a unique style of music which uses...
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