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.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Management at the Brattleboro Retreat and union members have overwhelmingly ratified a bargaining contract that will raise wages for more than 500 employees at the psychiatric hospital. The contract raises nurses' pay to a level that hospital representatives say meets or exceeds wages in neighboring Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Mental-health workers (MHW) positions have a new starting wage of $15 per hour. Other union members will see a 3 percent increase. Over the course of 11 meetings, management and the...
Local filmmaker Teresa Savel, in collaboration with the Westminster West Library, will host a screening of Palomita (Little Dove), a documentary about an indigenous women's doll-making collective high in the Andes Mountains of Peru, at the library, located at 3409 Westminster West Rd., on Friday, April 6. The event begins at 6:30 p.m., with Peruvian “humitas” (little tamales), followed by the film at 6:45 p.m. This 54-minute documentary, filled with vibrant cinematography and original Peruvian music, takes us from Southern...
SPRINGFIELD-At the Veteran Administration (VA) in White River Junction, a distinct memorial is dedicated to the submarine USS Flier (SS-250), lost during World War II in 1944. Ever-mindful of our lost shipmates, friends, and family who have served in the submarine service of our country, the United States Submarine Veterans Inc. (USSVI) has assigned each state one of the 52 lost submarines from World War II, with California and New York receiving two each of the lost submarines. Vermont was...
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