BRATTLEBORO — Aww! After all these years eating at the Chelsea Royal Diner, it's so sweet to know the story. I wish I had known it earlier on! I know where we're going out next!
Beautiful writing, Wendy M. Levy!
Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
Given the strong statewide push for school mergers, the town of Windham is an outlier in just about every way. The mountaintop community's elementary school has just 14 students from kindergarten through grade six, yet still maintains an independent board and budget for a two-classroom school house. The district even runs its own bus and hires its own driver. And school officials aren't about to change if they can help it. With the town having already rejected an Act 46...
As I watch the reality of Donald Trump unfold, I am reminded of two thoroughly prescient quotes: “Every day I ask myself the same question: How can this be happening in America? How can people like these be in charge of our country? If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I'd think I was having a hallucination.” -Philip Roth, The Plot Against America “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner...
St. Mary's in the Mountains invites everyone to help welcome in the holiday season with its third annual Red Door Community Carol Sing on the afternoon of Saturday, Dec. 1. All are invited to join the community in celebrating the season, singing traditional carols and seasonal favorites, and enjoying musical performances by Deerfield Valley musicians, as well as “tasty treats and surprises,” event organizers write. The red doors of the church at 13 East Main St. will open at 3:15...
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