Tom Schiedler shows that one is never too old to learn about and appreciate a new art form. Thank you for making me look in a different way.
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...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
State officials say they've found a way to force Entergy to continue to pay for Vermont Yankee's 10-mile emergency zone. In a surprise announcement May 26, Public Service Department Commissioner Chris Recchia said the state has new statutory authority to “bill back” Entergy for emergency planning activities in towns around the Vernon nuclear plant. Recchia expects the state also will be billing the plant's owner for other Vermont Yankee–related work such as groundwater testing and nonradiological waste monitoring. All told,
The combination of mass shootings and the continual assaults on women's access to reproductive health care hit home a few weeks ago, when I attended the grand opening of the new Planned Parenthood office in downtown Brattleboro. I was frightened that the celebration would be marred by some horrendous act of violence. And still, I went. I arrived late, and the hallway was packed. I couldn't hear the first person to speak and thought, briefly, about using that as an...
Rock River Players hold open auditions for “An Evening of One: Contemporary One Acts” at the Williamsville Hall. The public is welcome to audition either Thursday, March 30, from 5:30 to 7:30 or Saturday, April 1, from 10 to 12. Scripts will be provided. One-acts to be cast include Beautiful Noises by Scott Sickels. Directed by Randy Lichtenwalner, this piece is about a recently deceased man who encounters his long-lost sister in the afterlife. But instead of offering guidance, she...
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