I am so sorry to lose Pat Smith. She was the voice of the Reformer for me, and always helpful.
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...
This town's initial protest against the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling to overturn abortion rights was simple: 100 people congregating downtown to chant, “My body, my choice.” Ten days later, a local demonstrator, saying “forced birth is appallingly cruel and morally grotesque,” marched naked down Main Street, doused in fake blood, just before the start of the Fourth of July parade. Now the Selectboard is considering making its own statement with “A Resolution to Protect Pregnant People's Access to Abortion,”
The smell was what I noticed first - not unlike what you sense when a neighbor is burning brush down the road. “Down the road,” though, turned out to be smoke from wildfires in Manitoba and California which were staining our skies and burning our eyes and lungs last summer. That was the headline. The body of the story dove deeper into the effects and how fires in Canada and California were affecting air quality here, with experts ranking it...
The Vermont Jazz Center has begun its 40th iteration of the summer jazz workshop. The week-long program takes place on the campus of The Putney School, and encourages intermediate to professional level local and international students; in Vermont they polish their improvisational and musicianship skills while enjoying a hiatus in a beautiful, bucolic setting. These workshops began in 1974, when famed Hungarian guitarist Attila Zoller formed the Attila Zoller Guitar Clinics. These informal programs were fundamental in the development of...
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