MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
PUTNEY-A fourth appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court has proved unsuccessful in stopping the proposed housing project on Alice Holway Drive. In its Nov. 15 ruling, the court cleared the way for landowner Windham & Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) to proceed in its plan to build 25 units of mixed-income housing in two buildings on land on Alice Holway Drive next to the Putney Community Garden and the Putney Farmers Market. The ruling by the state's highest court affirms the...
Songwriters Jerry Appell and Holiday Eames of Rock in the Classroom will present an educational music video, “Numbers Never Lie,” to an international conference on Sept. 26. The music video will be presented at Virtual Ongoing Interdisciplinary Collaborations on Educating with Song (VOICES), an international conference of artists and educators that promotes the use of art and music in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education. “Numbers Never Lie” explores how quantitative data can both illuminate and distort issues related...
Failure to keep adequate and appropriate records is a liability to our small towns. When municipalities become unable to provide documentation to substantiate or disprove accusations, it points to a deficiency in management. Over the years, I've seen town officials and employees who do not document incoming complaints, but rather ask the caller to call a different elected official (who also does not document the complaint). When we fail to centralize or even keep records, we forego the ability to...
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