Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
Brooks Memorial Library Jerry Carbone's leadership has been recognized with the Vermont Library Association's 2008 Sarah Hagar Award, given yearly to a librarian in the state who has provided outstanding service. A 30-year veteran librarian at Brooks and director since 1993 who directs a thriving, multi-faceted program in times when library and information technologies are undergoing tremendous change, Carbone swiftly removes himself from the focus when discussing the award. At a surprise awards ceremony at the Vermont Library Conference in...
Anyone can make a mistake. We all should value and support the efforts of anyone who wants to create community news - particularly volunteers working for a good cause. Those hours are long and often thankless, but the benefit to the community is incalculable. But questions about the two pages in the October issue of The Vernon Newspaper have sparked a controversy in the Windham-1 House race between Richard Davis of Guilford and Mike Hebert of Vernon. Davis contends that...
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...
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