BRATTLEBORO — A request for State Rep. Mike Hebert and the health-care committee:
Please support any proposition to remove the religious exemption from vaccinations and support the medical and scientific community's consensus that vaccine exemptions should only be granted to children for medical reasons, not parental ignorance.
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When Vermont sent its first female representative to Washington this past year, it was in itself a historic moment. But U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., has become part of a greater, and more tragic history. She has found herself inside what she calls "a Republican Civil War." In the House, just days after mustering just enough votes for a last-minute 45-day funding bill that averted a shutdown of the federal government, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was ousted...
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Canal Street Art Gallery (CSAG) presents the Canal Street Art Gallery Represented Artist Show at Main Street Arts (MSA), on view to the public through Monday, Aug. 9. This group show is a collaborative exhibition featuring artwork from the Canal Street Art Gallery's roster of represented artists and curated by the Bellows Falls gallery in the galleries of Main Street Arts, in nearby Saxtons River. As these two art institutions continue to reemerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and recognizing a...
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