What a lovely piece! It's so hard to make such a huge sacrifice, even when we know it's the best and right thing to do.
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...
Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan has sanctioned Marlboro College's transfer of assets to Emerson College in Boston. The Attorney General's Office (AGO) also okayed the sale of the campus to Democracy Builders Fund (DBF), which intends to launch a new school, Degrees of Freedom (DOF), which is designing a low-residency college program with an anticipated opening in 2021. After the state approval was issued July 20, both transactions are expected to take place this week, according to Marlboro College President...
Like so many dazed parents the morning after the election, I tried to explain to my daughters what had happened while they slept. How our country had elected a racist, misogynist bully for a president. How there would not be a woman in the White House, as we'd naïvely toasted over chicken and quinoa the night before. How my feminist-mommy slogans like “Girls can do anything!” now sounded like feeble promises in a broken world of hate and fear. My...
Atlantic Crossing will play New England and Celtic traditional music on Saturday, Dec. 12, at 7:30 p.m., at Immanuel Episcopal Church, the stone church on the hill, 20 Church St. For nearly two decades, Atlantic Crossing has played traditional songs and acoustic instrumental music from New England - music which has deep Celtic roots in the British Isles and in French and Maritime Canada - together with original compositions inspired by these traditions. The band adapts the music of the...
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