Last Wednesday's big snowstorm kept the turnout down, but 227 voters in the five towns in the Leland & Gray Union High School district nevertheless braved the elements and approved a more than $6.3-million budget for the 2011-12 school year by a 156-71 margin. Turnout last year was 354. In 2009, it was 344. A smaller snowstorm the day before the vote kept people away from the district meeting, which drew about the same number of school board and district...
It is time for a change in the Vermont Attorney General's office, and that is one of the reasons I am voting for T. J. Donovan in the Democratic primary for attorney general. Donovan has been a successful litigator as Chittenden County state's attorney, and those skills will serve Vermonters well in the attorney general's office. Donavan also has a strong set of principles that he is running on, and I am enthusiastically supporting him because he is pushing for...
In late May, a group of 16 artists gathered in Bellows Falls for a week of fellowship and painting. Some knew each other; some had never met before. It was billed as “The Fryer-Hunter Gathering,” a colloquium hosted by friends Doug Fryer, a Utah painter and one-time Vermont resident, and local artist Charlie Hunter. A show of selected works from that week, entitled “Downriver,“ is now on display at the Rockingham Free Public Library. “Bellows Falls has fabulous subject matter...
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