BRATTLEBORO — I am so proud of what Ann Braden has done, and I have been honored to work with her on GunSense Vt. projects. I believe she will be an amazing senator when her time comes.
(Also, her successor is Clai Lasher-Sommers, not Lashman.)
Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
Traditionally, voters in Guilford have organized a “meet the candidates” night at the Broad Brook Grange hall, where the folks running for town offices would introduce themselves to voters. COVID-19 and ongoing renovations to the Grange Hall have disrupted that tradition. Instead, a different sort of event took shape on Feb. 17 at the Vermont Marketplace, the former Outlet Center, on Canal Street. And, by design, only two of the four candidates for the Selectboard were present. Lynn Latulippe King,
“Cover your mouth; you don't want to breathe that in.” This is the phrase I hear all too often at my summer job as a landscaper. Toward the middle of the season, our job becomes entirely about maintenance. When you get to a site, you go through the same routine: weed, cultivate, water, and dust. Dusting is our term for spreading insecticide. We shake a fine, white powder from a spice container onto the plants. It is always the last...
Putney Public Library hosts a Writers Salon via Zoom, 7–8 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month, November through March, and features writers of fiction and poetry from Vermont and other parts of the United States. Host Toni Ortner welcomes Diane Frank and Castle Freeman Jr. as February's writers. Diane Frank is the author of eight books of poems, three novels, and a photo memoir of her 400-mile trek in the Nepali Himalayas. White Listening to the Enigma Variations,
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