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Voices

Looking toward a better dental-care system

By
Michelle Fay
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 — Issue 363

I'm looking forward to a day when dentistry offers a system of care rather than sporadic charity care for the many Vermonters who fall through the cracks.

Voices

To recruit young workers, businesses need to show up and reach out

By
Dylan Stewart

BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...

Birthday parade, or Medicaid?

By
Jane Olmstead

NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...

'A deeply flawed system'

By
Timothy Belknap

Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...

How do we give due process its due?

By
Meg Mott

Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...

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News

A good man, a good life

By
Randolph T. Holhut
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 — Issue 443

Tim O'Connor didn't want a lot of pomp and pageantry for his funeral, held on a warm and sunny Jan. 20 afternoon at St. Michael's Catholic Church on Walnut Street. O'Connor, who died on Jan. 16 at the age of 81 [See Milestones, C2], requested a service that was as modest as he was. There was no procession bringing his casket down the center aisle of his home parish. He still got an honor guard, anyway, as much of the...

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Voices

Killing the wind

By
Tad Montgomery
Wednesday, May 10, 2017 — Issue 407

On May 1, George Harvey, Tom Finnell, and I drove over the foggy Green Mountains to Bennington to attend a Public Service Board hearing on proposed new regulations for wind power in Vermont. The new rules would set a noise standard of 42 decibels (dB) during the day and 35 dB at night. They would also establish minimum setback distances of 10 times a turbine's height, so a 300-foot-tall turbine would have to be 3,000 feet from the nearest property...

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Arts

Literary Cocktail Hour features novelist Jonathan Evison

Wednesday, February 9, 2022 — Issue 650

The Brattleboro Literary Festival virtual Literary Cocktail Hour Friday, Feb. 11, at 5 p.m. will feature author Jonathan Evison. In a review of Evison's seventh novel, Small World, in January, Kirkus called the book “a bighearted, widescreen American tale.” “Without being simplistic or wearing rose-colored glasses, Evison suggests a fresh way of recognizing our relationships without melting-pot clichés,” the review said. Evison, who lives with his wife and family on an island in Washington state, is also the author of...

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