BRATTLEBORO — Whoever painted this graffiti on a rock in the West River estuary, please desist.
Haven't we already done enough to the Abenaki lands?
Painted rocks on the West River.
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MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Several years after being detected here, the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis, EAB) continues to munch on a potential feast of more than 150 million ash (Fraxinus) trees in Vermont. That's 5 to 7 percent of the state's trees on average or about 1 in 12 trees, although in some areas, such as the Champlain Islands, the number is more like 40 percent. Losing this many trees would clearly have a significant impact, but there's still time to plan proactively...
An exhibit by the Oregon-based textile artist Jude Danielson will run in the gallery of Epsilon Spires for the months of July and August, with an opening celebration on Friday, July 1, featuring a musical performance by Intangible Shirt Company. The show, “Unseen Rhythms,” features Danielson's large-scale quilts based on pixelated abstractions of human faces. “I love faces and landscapes, geometry and rhythms,” Danielson, who spent decades working in various fields of science and mathematics before retiring in 2011, said...
PUTNEY-I strongly oppose Article II on the Brattleboro's Annual Town Meeting Australian ballot on Tuesday, March 4, which falsely defines Israel as an apartheid state. This claim is not only untrue but has no place on the town ballot. Our local government must uphold integrity and refuse to entertain baseless accusations. Israel is a pluralistic, multicultural democracy where Muslims, Jews, Christians, and others participate as equals in every aspect of society. The one exception is that Jews and Christians are...
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