Wendy Harrison is one of Windham County's two state senators. BRATTLEBORO-We're talking a lot about...
LEYDEN, MASS.-I was lucky to have been born in Boston in 1947 and never served...
WARDSBORO-I agree, we do need facts. Have you heard of CWD (chronic wasting disease)? It's...
The writer is president of Vermont Friends of Israel. ATHENS-In response to Bert Picard's criticisms...
Less than a month after their third appeal was turned down, two neighbors of the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust's proposed affordable housing community on Alice Holway Drive have filed a fourth appeal - this time to the Vermont Supreme Court. Laura Campbell and Deborah Lazar have made the appeal, filed by attorney Hal Stevens, protesting the planned 25 units of mixed-income housing in two buildings on land on Alice Holway Drive next to the Putney Community Garden and Putney...
As health care and other costs of living spiral ever further out of people's reach, our legislators and the State's Green Mountain Care Board have a unique opportunity to protect Vermont residents from rising health care prices, once and for all. Vermont's Act 48, passed in 2011, makes ours the only state in the country with a law codifying the human right to health care and creating the Green Mountain Care Board, charging it with implementing a publicly financed, universal...
Artist Evie Lovett and poet Diana Whitney have each drawn inspiration from the Connecticut River in their work in a multimedia exhibition entitled Thaw: A Conversation in Words and Imagery. Lovett's encaustic paintings and several of Whitney's poems will be on display in the gallery at Next Stage Arts Project in Putney from Feb. 17 until May 15. The opening reception is Saturday, Feb. 17, from 4 to 6 p.m., which includes a poetry reading by Whitney at 5 p.m.
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