Opposition to Vermont Yankee is more like a religion than a war.
Django Grace describes himself as an environmentalist, skier, chiller, and lifelong Brattleborian. He graduated from...
Chloe Learey is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development...
WESTMINSTER WEST-My recent essay in The Commons revealed the unique position of Vermont as a...
Roger Allbee served as secretary of agriculture, farms, and markets for Vermont in the administration...
A proposal to establish fees per unit on landlords, authored by Trustee Deb Wright and put before the Board of Trustees, drew a large number of landlord and tenants who told the board it was an “insulting” and “embarrassing” document and “should be scrapped.” The board voted to do just that to Wright's proposal, which called, in part, for “a rental housing impact fee” of one month's rent per apartment per year and excluded owner-occupied residencies. Wright voted against her...
Amy Comerchero: you have been a warm, genuine, generous, wonderful boss and friend. It's been a pleasure to work for you, and I feel very lucky that you took me into your Amy's Bakery Arts Café family. I hope you take lots of time to enjoy that well-deserved break before starting on your next adventure. (I can't wait to see what it will be!) I love you, Amy. Thank you so much for being you!
The current show at the Vermont Center for Photography, “Soma,” recent photographs by Michelle Rogers Pritzl, is not “easy.” It doesn't go down as smoothly as a beautiful landscape, close-up of a flower, or traditional portrait. But these photographs are as important as they are edgy. Looking in some instances like photos from a 19th-century chamber of tortures, the photographs are actually self-portraits of the artist which metaphorically depict the mental and emotional harm we inflict on ourselves, by carrying...
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