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...
Better late than never. After being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 50th edition of Green Up Day will be held on Saturday, May 30. Normally held on the first Saturday in May, this annual roadside clean up sees Vermonters of all ages get outside and clean up miles of roads throughout the state. Inspired by the first Earth Day in 1970, Green Up Day is Vermont's largest all-volunteer, statewide, one-day event. While Vermont's Interstates and state highways, some...
Not long ago, a woman in late pregnancy suffering severe depression tried to commit suicide. She survived, but her baby died. She was charged with murder. A pregnant woman who lost her unborn child in a car accident in New York state was charged with manslaughter. So was a woman in Indiana who gave birth to a stillborn baby. Even in cases where a fetus hasn't died, pregnant women have been charged with crimes in various states - for miscarrying,
New England Youth Theatre, 100 Flat St., will present an Alumni Anniversary Production of “Horse Drawn Yogurt Radio Hour,” written and directed by Peter Gould, to be performed at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 28, and Saturday, June 29. Gould's Vermont memoir, Horse Drawn Yogurt, is a collection of stories of his life as a young man on a farm commune at the height of the back-to-the-land movement. The book is a Green Writers Press original, and Gould has done...
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