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After more than four decades in radio news, WTSA News Director Tim Johnson Arsenault will step away from the mike. He made the announcement on Nov. 11, during WTSA-FM's “Morning Brew” show. “It was my decision, and my decision alone,” he said. “For many years, I've served a number of elected offices in Vernon, and I'll be seeking one [in 2016] that will require my full-time attention.” Arsenault, the station's news director and co-host of the Morning Brew, said he...
On a recent Friday, the local soup kitchen where I attend, Loaves and Fishes, served 490 meals - a record high! Included in this reckoning was food for 40 children at an adjacent day-care center, plus meals for them and their families for the weekend. The rest was a larger-than-normal demand by walk-in clients plus their own take-outs, for this early part of the month. We also had to explain to those attending something not entirely made clear by the...
Art in the Neighborhood, a Brattleboro-based nonprofit, recently received grants from the Crosby-Gannett Fund and the Dunham-Mason Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation. The grants will provide tuition-free art classes to students receiving services from Health Care and Rehabilitative Services, the regional mental health agency. Art in the Neighborhood has been collaborating with that agency since 2015. These grants allow continued funding for the program. Mollie S. Burke, Executive Director of Art in the Neighborhood, said in a news release...
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