BRATTLEBORO — It's a sad day when a writer loses a job. I hope Pat Smith and Mike Fahar find meaningful work that will continue to contribute to their community.
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...
After nearly five years of being an advocate, Ann Braden wants to be on the inside. Braden, the founder of GunSense Vermont and a gun-violence prevention advocate, recently announced that she will step away from leading the organization to run for public office. Clai Lashman-Sommers will be the group's acting executive director. This fall, Braden was accepted to Emerge Vermont, a Democratic Party program that trains women to run for political office, and she said she wants to run for...
When a small community hospital makes a $1.655 million mistake, there needs to be some degree of accountability to the public to let them know what happened and how it happened. Brattleboro Memorial Hospital paid that amount in civil claims because it “knowingly presented false claims for payment to Medicare and Medicaid,” according to a Feb. 27 news story in the Brattleboro Reformer. It appears that the problem resulted from errors in coding and that the money in question was...
Brattleboro Concert Choir music director Susan Dedell recently had a friendly argument with a colleague who disliked the word “entertainment” being used to characterize something as serious as the playing and listening of classical music. Dedell disagreed. “I think 'entertainment' is a great word!” she exclaimed. Long interested in the meanings and origins of words, Dedell discovered that “entertain” had connotations that included such meanings as “to reach,” “to engage,” and “to show hospitality.” “That's precisely what we are doing...
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