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...
The battle over long-term storage of Vermont Yankee's spent nuclear fuel has spilled into criminal court. Clay Turnbull, a trustee and staffer of the Brattleboro-based New England Coalition, was cited March 3 by the Windham County Sheriff's Department for unlawful trespass at the plant property in Vernon. Turnbull is scheduled to appear in Windham Superior Court Criminal Division next month to answer the allegation. But in an interview the day after the incident, the 53-year-old Townshend resident said he was...
Honor roll student Christol Long may not be one to act up, “but I've always wanted to be in a musical.” So imagine the 17-year-old junior's reaction upon winning a lead role in this week's Brattleboro Union High School production of the Broadway hit Rent. “Rent?” she recalls thinking. “What's Rent?” The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock opera, Long would learn, chronicles the lives of young artists fighting the initial 1980s outbreak of AIDS with such untested and toxic...
Please vote in person or early-vote in the Tuesday, Aug. 24, Primary Election. If you live in the Windham 4 House district, I would appreciate your vote to continue as your state representative. I seek the opportunity to work hard for you using my experience to your advantage. If re-elected I will continue to strive to secure access to affordable health care for all Vermonters; to ensure the fiscal integrity and stability of the state; to reduce the property tax...
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