I'm looking forward to a day when dentistry offers a system of care rather than sporadic charity care for the many Vermonters who fall through the cracks.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
With officials in some towns scrambling to figure out what to do with their residents' recyclables after June 30, there's a movement to keep the Windham Solid Waste Management District's Materials Recovery Facility open. During the District's Dec. 9 Board of Supervisors meeting, members voted to close the MRF at the end of Fiscal Year 2017. The MRF is the facility where recyclables are collected, sorted, and stored while awaiting shipping to the materials market. Board members cited the high...
Once again, St. Mary's in the Mountains is offering a musical dessert to conclude the Deerfield Valley annual Wine & Harvest Festival's “Wine & Soup Stroll” on Friday, Sept. 22, with music starting at 7:30 p.m. After strolling the village sampling wines and foods from area restaurants, visitors and neighbors are invited to come to the historic main hall of St. Mary's in Wilmington to enjoy desserts and a concert of classical works performed by a group of talented musicians.
As we approach the November general election, please make every effort to report election results responsibly. Jennifer Rubin's sobering commentary on this important function of the media, “How to minimize 2020 election chaos” [The Washington Post, July 26], is right on point. Please commit to informing the public - not just once, but regularly - that it might take several weeks to get final accurate vote counts in the 2020 election, and explicitly indicating skepticism when reporting Trump's inevitable claims...
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