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...
BRATTLEBORO-New housing development in the pipeline could result in an additional 400 homes in town in the next five years if all the projects come to fruition. The individual projects, in various stages of development from conceptual planning to putting together funding, address the area's urgent need for workforce housing, affordable housing, and refugee housing. In 2021, Brattleboro's Housing Action Plan reported "a pressing need for more than 500 [housing] units." While none of the projects in the works are...
Elayne Clift (elayne-clift.com) has written this column about women, politics, and social issues from the earliest days of this newspaper. As Greek philosopher Heraclitus claimed around 500 BCE, "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. There is nothing permanent except change." The noted philosopher meant that change is the only reality. Given our political processes in election years, institutional change is needed more than ever as...
BELLOWS FALLS-The Saxtons River Art Guild (SRAG) announces a one-day workshop given by Vermont watercolorist Robert J. O'Brien on Saturday, April 20, at the United Church of Bellows Falls, 8 School St., from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The theme of the workshop is "Spring Landscapes." Students will learn how to paint the subtle colors of spring using reference photos. Composition and painting light and shadow will be explored in this workshop. Class attendants should bring watercolors, paper, and a...
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