It's safe to say Julie Moore, in her first public appearance here as state Agency of Natural Resources secretary, wasn't hoping to hear the word “Kafkaesque.” But that was just one of the terms that area residents used at a March 2 meeting to describe their frustrations with the agency's permitting processes and with the state's Act 250 land-use regulations. During the penultimate stop on her statewide “listening tour,” Moore and her deputy secretary, Peter Walke, sought to assure the...
The staffers, faculty, students, and alumni of New England Youth Theatre, many of whom have been involved in cinema projects recently, invite you to check out these films, each a labor of love and craft: Jane Baker, a teacher and director at NEYT, wrote and directed “110 Llandaff,” a short film based on Baker's childhood family travails in Philadelphia in the mid-1970s. Principal shooting of the film, starring David Koechner and Paula Pell, wrapped Sept. 15 [“Brutality in silence,” Arts,
The writer is president of Vermont Friends of Israel. ATHENS-In response to Bert Picard's criticisms that my most recent letter makes "dangerous" and "wild accusations," I ask, does Mr. Picard also take issue with Richard Evers' claim that "the majority of American Jews...are worse than the Germans of the 1930s"? Was he offended when Kate Casa proclaimed I am a "genocide supporter" in those same pages? Perhaps he was bothered to read Adian Smith accuse Tim Wessel of "dehumanizing and...
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