Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
Efficiency, energy generation, energy storage, electrification, and planning are the top priorities the town will use to guide future capital energy projects. The Selectboard has unanimously approved staff's recommendations for creating the Fossil Fuel Free Facilities Fund, with a goal of eliminating the municipality's use of fossil fuels and simultaneously saving money. Each year, the town will invest $70,000 into the fund, which will be similar to the town's capital improvement fund but with a specific focus on energy-related projects...
Westminster West resident Jessie Haas will virtually visit Village Square Booksellers on Saturday, Oct. 17, at 11 a.m., to discuss her newest horse novel The Hungry Place. In this horse adventure - described in a news release as “perfect for fans of Black Beauty” - a Connemara pony, is pampered and beloved, then abused and neglected, until a 12-year-old girl brings love to her again. The pony, Princess, lives a charmed life of brown sugar cubes, crunchy apples, sweet grass,
We, the voters of Vermont, have two proposed constitutional changes on the November ballot. One clarifies language already in the Constitution about slavery; the other obfuscates and adds new language that is reported to be about abortion but as it reads is more about the State determining individuals' life choices. The right to an abortion is already the law of Vermont. The language of the existing law reads, “The State of Vermont recognizes the fundamental right of every individual who...
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