DUMMERSTON — Wonderfully detailed and complete article on the status of recycling and trash disposal but no information on how options affect the environment and climate change.
I would love to read more in a future story.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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Community House has added a high school at 80 Linden St. to its Community School House programs and Oak Street campus holdings. With the acquisition and renovation of the historic, newly renovated Deacon John Holbrook House, day students in grades 9-12 in the program now, for the first time, have a dedicated high school building. According to the organization's website, it provides a short-term residential stabilization and assessment program for children 6–12 years of age, an independent and general special-education...
The Vermont Jazz Center will complete its 2020-21 livestream season with a concert by the highly acclaimed Immanuel Wilkins Quartet on Saturday, June 5, at 8 p.m. This young group has been a solid, performing ensemble for four years. Its members, each in his early to mid-20s, have been touring, recording, and creating together since their teens. The musicians are Immanuel Wilkins (compositions and alto saxophone), Micah Thomas (piano), Daryl Johns (bass) and Kweku Sumbry (drums). The quartet's debut recording,
Dear Legislators, Recently, the acting secretary of education, Heather Bouchey, ignored the majority of voters in the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union who emphatically rejected a merger and is now imposing that same merger plan on us. In her recommendation, she claims that the Legislature “did not contemplate a departure from the goal of a preferred merger based upon community sentiment” and makes assumptions that the voters who rejected the merger did so because of “a lack of information, misinformation, or...
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