TOWNSHEND-The smallest hospital in Vermont is not going anywhere. One provision of The One Big...
BELLOWS FALLS-National Grid and Great River Hydro (GRH) is making plans to upgrade the Vilas...
Much has been written about the effort expended on changing the way Vermont's education is...
BRATTLEBORO-Ask any journalist: It is almost impossible to get a good photo of documents being...
MONTPELIER-Funding may be at risk for a nonprofit program that buys local food and gives it to Vermonters struggling with money - so its leaders are backing a bill that would solidify its budget through a state agency, rather than grants and donations. Vermonters Feeding Vermonters, created and run by the Vermont Foodbank, helps get locally grown produce and protein into the hands of food-insecure Vermonters. Started in 2018, the program provides money to purchase food wholesale from local farms,
WEST CHESTERFIELD, N.H.-In Donald Margulies's Collected Stories - the latest production of Actors Theatre Playhouse (ATP) - grad student Lisa is thrilled to be under the tutelage of her literary idol, Ruth Steiner. Over the years, Lisa becomes Ruth's personal assistant and gradually her friend, as Ruth helps her hone her writing abilities. But as Lisa's career begins to flourish and Ruth's begins to fade, can the tenuous relationship between mentor and mentee survive ambition, rivalry, and possible betrayal? Collected...
I live on the Rock River, just downstream from what was once a thriving industrial center. At the turn of the 19th century, the Rock River powered more than 20 different industries, including a sawmill, a grist mill, a fulling mill, a felting mill, a jelly mill, a tannery, a wheelwright, a carriage maker, a hatmaker, and a bobbin- and boxmaker. It's hardly surprising, given this industry, that both the stagecoach and the West River Railroad made regular stops in...
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