A contribution to the Sept. 4 Letters from Readers column called out U.S. Rep. Peter Welch for not voicing support for impeaching President Donald Trump.
Welch, in fact, called for Trump's impeachment on July 18.
For the past few years, Town Manager Peter B. Elwell has worked to steer the Selectboard away from putting out proverbial fiscal fires and toward preventing emergencies in the first place. Small municipalities too often replace important town vehicles and infrastructure only after they've failed or have come close to it, or fixing buildings only after they've begun to crumble. This budget season, Elwell and his staff continue that effort with their short-term goals - recommendations for the fiscal year...
Nader Hashim of Dummerston is the experienced candidate to replace retiring Windham County Senators Becca Balint and Jeanette White. A former Windham-4 state representative (Dummerston, Putney, Westminster), Hashim knows firsthand how our Legislature works and how to work in our Legislature. A former Vermont state trooper, Hashim knows firsthand real-life Vermont and real-life Vermonters. A law clerk becoming a lawyer, Hashim knows firsthand how laws that our legislators pass work in practice as he prepares to practice law. I have...
Sometimes just as everything seems over, it turns out to be simply a new beginning. When Robert Merfeld was finally diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, he had to face up to his growing suspicion that his career as a pianist was coming to an end. MS is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and body. Merfeld for a long time had found it increasingly...
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