BRATTLEBORO — Nick Widomski was a really amazing person, and everybody who knew him is going to miss him terribly.
BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...
BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...
SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...
GUILFORD-In the subheading referring to "the 'cruelty' of the budget bill," I understand why you...
Mount Snow administrators say the federal government has approved the resort's EB-5 foreign investment program, and they're hoping that signals the imminent release of $52 million for snowmaking and lodge upgrades. Funding for Mount Snow's Carinthia LP project has been held in escrow while the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services reviews the resort's plans and its foreign investors' immigrant visa petitions. Administrators announced May 25 that the first part of that review is complete as immigration officials have given the...
Elayne Clift (elayne-clift.com) has written this column about women, politics, and social issues from the earliest days of this newspaper. Remember the outcry when we realized that prior Republican administrations, national and state, cared about children but only from conception to birth? It's looking like déjà vu all over again with millions of children in this wealthy country going hungry. As The New York Times noted in a January article, more than eight million kids in 13 states are about...
Love to work outside in the summer? Join a small group of artists to paint in the plein air tradition - in the open air. In the spectacular summer beauty of the Vermont countryside, River Gallery School welcomes any and all levels of artists to join them at the Hilltop Montessori campus in the hills of Brattleboro for “Plein Air Landscape: Painting with Pastels Oils” with Helen Schmidt. Amidst Hilltop's quaint pond, rolling hills, fields, budding wildflowers, and buildings, artists...
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