Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
The 93rd Harris Hill ski jumping competition had plenty of snow. In fact, it had too much snow. A Saturday night storm left about 5 inches of snow, and volunteers on Sunday morning had to scramble to clear the hill of the new-fallen fluff. A power outage caused by a fallen tree on Riverside Drive also threw organizers a curve. Add gusty winds and bitter cold, and it was a tough day for spectators and competitors alike for Sunday's Fred...
RE: “From Vermont family court to judging war criminals” [News, Oct. 10]: Patty Whalen, and the entire wave of women appointed to the bench during the Madeleine Kunin era, brought Vermont forward in reducing gender bias in Vermont courtrooms, but she did not end it. Vermont still has a long way to go.
Elena Georgiou - fiction writer, poet, and director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Goddard College - will read from her recently published book of short stories, The Immigrant's Refrigerator on Saturday, May 5, in Grafton. The reading will be followed by a discussion. There are approximately 65 million refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people around the world. What does it mean to search for a future that will not only be a place of refuge, but also...
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