I thought Vermont had more sense than this. We, the people of the 17 towns of southern New Hampshire, have fought the Kinder Morgan pipeline and do not want it in our state.
What is wrong with the so-called “green state”?
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...
Vermont Senate President Pro Tem Becca Balint, D-Brattleboro, made it official on Dec. 13: She will be running for Congress in 2022. At her campaign kickoff event at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier, Balint said that she is running for the Democratic nomination “because we're facing huge challenges. Working families are struggling, the pandemic is raging on, real climate action can't wait, and our democracy itself is at risk. The future feels perilous. We can't tackle these challenges if...
Local author and naturalist Sarah Cooper-Ellis would be the first to admit that she couldn't have done it alone. Her first novel, Landing, forthcoming this month from Levellers Press, is a late-life love story set in Vermont against the backdrop of small-town gossip and family intrigue. Although Cooper-Ellis has been writing most of her life, she would never have had the courage to finish and publish this book without the support of many writer colleagues. “When, after my first husband...
I see on the Wilmington Annual Town Meeting warning two articles related to going to Australian ballot and doing away with Town Meetings. It is important that Wilmington voters know that this means that Annual Town Meetings would cease to exist. Our form of town government would change, drastically. Voters would go in on a given day, with no discussion, and just vote the articles. No questions, no debate, no direct involvement. I know that some voters are unable to...
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