Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...
CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...
The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
During her first walk through the fire-gutted Brooks House last year, Tapp Barnhill, executive director of academic centers for the Community College of Vermont, remembers saying to members of the Mesabi Group, “[You] deserve a lifetime achievement award.” Fire ripped through the prominent downtown landmark in April 2011, destroying 60 apartments and displacing 10 businesses. Firefighters extinguished the accidental electrical fire, and the 80,000-square-foot historical structure remained standing, but uninhabitable without major renovations. Flash forward to March 14 and the...
The Senate votes against allowing witnesses or testimony. President Trump is charged with abuse of power and obstruction of justice. He refused to send subpoenaed information to the House, refused to let subpoenaed people testify to the House, and a small majority of Senators shamefully shammed justice as they stand as bystanders to the bully by refusing to allow any witnesses or testimony in the Senate. They were wrong. The American public has watched the impeachment process. We are all...
Art in the Neighborhood, a Brattleboro-based nonprofit, recently received an Arts Impact grant from the Vermont Arts Council. Arts Impact Grants are “designed to support nonprofit organizations in making art experiences equitable and accessible to marginal communities,” according to the Arts Council. The grant will support a project titled “Image to Page: Poetry, Art, and Books.” Noted poet Verandah Porche will work with students at Westgate Housing, Ledgewood Heights, and Moore Court to create poems and stories through a method...
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