Sarah Copeland Hanzas is Vermont's Secretary of State. Prior to her election, she served for...
BRATTLEBORO-Mollie S. Burke has represented District 8 for 16 years. She is a trusted and...
BELLOWS FALLS-All registered voters of Windham-3 - that includes Rockingham, Westminster, and Brookline - please...
WESTMINSTER-My friend Ann Smith and I attended Casey Cota's meeting on the Affordable Heat Act...
For more than a month, members of the Windham Northeast Supervisory Union (WNESU) community have told school officials they don't want Principal John Broadley to leave. An online petition to keep Broadley in his current role had more than 1,020 signatures as of March 3. But the principal - who told the school board last month that he would not renew his role at Bellows Falls Union High School - apparently doesn't want to talk about it. At a March...
There has been a standoff between two slogans in Putney: Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter. “All Lives Matter” is being seen by many people, including people of color, as a racist rebuttal to Black Lives Matter. When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence “that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” at that time women and...
Bellows Falls has designated “May, Art Month in Bellows Falls,” a town-wide celebration to build awareness and appreciation of the arts and businesses throughout the village. “We will be highlighting artists, events, shops, and restaurants that contribute year-round to the vital and cultural richness and economic stability of the community,” Robert McBride, founder and director of The Rockingham Arts & Museum Project (RAMP), said in a news release. McBride said designating the month of May was a natural collaboration that...
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