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.
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...
Stroll downtown, and Christmas screams everywhere. So imagine the surprise when a recent ad for Brown and Roberts Hardware pictured a child hammering home a different holiday. “Build and paint your own menorah!” the workshop poster promised. “Enjoy donuts, hot cocoa and chocolate Chanukah gelt!” The Green Mountain State may morph each December into a 5.9-million-acre set for White Christmas, but the Jewish holiday of Chanukah is set to shine its own light on the area beginning Sunday at dusk.
Twilight Music continues its 15th annual Twilight On The Tavern Lawn series of summer concerts on Sunday, July 9, with dream pop quintet Luminous Crush. Luminous Crush is a rock and pop band fronted by Laura Molinelli and Ben Campbell. Joined by Christian Heins (bass), Brad Waugaman (keyboard) and Paul Carroccio (drums), they form a quintet that focuses on original dreamlike pop and rock vignettes. Waugaman, an accomplished videographer, provides an accompanying light show as well as performing on keys...
In this era, while we see impressive gains in some areas of civil liberties, we also see stagnation, serious threats to progress, and outright regression in others. Democracy itself is under severe threat with upsurges in authoritarianism and oligarchy both abroad and in the U.S. We might sometimes like to take comfort that we live in a state where a more-egalitarian approach is often the rule. But even Vermont's more open-minded approach is threatened by the recent passage by the...
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