Wendy Harrison is one of Windham County's two state senators. BRATTLEBORO-We're talking a lot about...
LEYDEN, MASS.-I was lucky to have been born in Boston in 1947 and never served...
WARDSBORO-I agree, we do need facts. Have you heard of CWD (chronic wasting disease)? It's...
The writer is president of Vermont Friends of Israel. ATHENS-In response to Bert Picard's criticisms...
St. Michael's Episcopal offers Christmas pageant BRATTLEBORO - Toddlers, children, and teens offer a Christmas pageant, Vermont-style, at 4 p.m. on Christmas Eve at St. Michael's Episcopal Church on Bradley Ave. Several years ago youth of the parish expressed a desire to make the pageant more personal to them as Vermonters and so the church has seen different twists each year: from the entrance of a live goat to the delivery of apple pie and gilfeather turnips; from gifts of...
Eight years ago, I stood on the National Mall, wrapped in the arms of my biracial same-sex lover, to experience the Inauguration ceremony of Barack Obama, a man whose campaign slogan had been, simply, “Hope.” And, indeed, we were full of hope on that day, in that season. When the program ended, we made our way to the far end of the Reflecting Pool and up into the Lincoln Memorial to read the full text of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural...
Canal Street Art Gallery's “A Moment In Frame” photography show opens Feb. 15, and will be open to the public through April 6. The gallery is located at 23 Canal St. and is open Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. All are invited to attend the opening reception in Bellows Falls from 5 to 8 p.m. on the 3rd Friday Gallery Night on Feb. 15. There will be live jazz music and refreshments. “A Moment In Frame”
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