Where did FairPoint ever say that it would cut pay by one-third?
What a dumb letter. Get the facts straight before writing, please.
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The Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) School Board continues to respond to sexual misconduct claims against former Brattleboro Union High School English teacher Robert “Zeke” Hecker. In a Viewpoint in The Commons [“No more secrecy,” Viewpoint, Aug. 11], Mindy Haskins Rogers exposed a pattern of Hecker's behavior with students, both in and out of the classroom, and material from a 2009 Brattleboro Police Department investigation. That inquiry uncovered and quoted from a letter from Hecker to a survivor where he...
What is the best use for the former Chemco property, at the uniquely scenic junction of the Saxtons and Connecticut rivers, just below the Falls? Vermont towns along the Connecticut are just beginning to wake up to the immense potential of their riverfronts. The Whetstone Station restaurant in Brattleboro has become a huge success, with its river view. The Joy Wah restaurant in Bellows Falls has long been favored as much for its view as its kitchen. Beyond that, Bellows...
In the late 1960s, urban members of the counterculture came to Vermont to build communes, grow their own food, and pursue alternative work lives. Guilford was a center of this back-to-the-land activity and a source of creative energy. Packer Corners Road and the surrounding community were home to young actors, musicians, singers, writers, artists, sculptors, carpenters, and costume makers. Members of Total Loss Farm, the commune on Packer Corners Road, formed the Monteverdi Players and, with creative director John Carroll,
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