DUMMERSTON — It's sad when you're a devoted employee for decades and when you leave it's no big thing to an employer.
People wonder why no one wants to work at one place for long.
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...
Southeastern Vermont Community Action announced a special appeal to the public for donations to its housing assistance fund, which is used to help homeless families and individuals obtain housing and to keep those at risk of homelessness in their homes. The anti-poverty agency provides assistance with back rent, first month's rent, security deposits, and utility payments to end or prevent homelessness for 350 to 450 local households per year, but existing funding falls far short of the need. “Homelessness prevention...
In the presidential primary last month, Vermonters made a resounding statement in favor of Bernie Sanders, delivering him a decisive 86-percent win that rendered Hillary Clinton disqualified from gaining any of the state's delegates. Well - except for those pesky superdelegates, who can do whatever they so choose, regardless of what their constituents definitively prove they want. One of those superdelegates: Vermont's less-fiery senator, Patrick Leahy, who has told the press he will cast his heavily weighted vote for Clinton...
Friends of Music at Guilford invites singers and music lovers in the Tri-State region to start their holiday season at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2, with the 47th annual Community Messiah Sing, a benefit for the homeless. Centre Congregational Church, at 193 Main Street in Brattleboro, has been home for the Sing since 1982 and for a few prior seasons as well. Kenneth Olsson will conduct. Though new to this role at the Sing, Olsson is well known in...
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