NEWFANE — My son had Nicole Plympton last year, and he absolutely loved her.
He has had troubles with focus while in school, and she connected with him and made him enjoy education.
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...
It's safe to say Julie Moore, in her first public appearance here as state Agency of Natural Resources secretary, wasn't hoping to hear the word “Kafkaesque.” But that was just one of the terms that area residents used at a March 2 meeting to describe their frustrations with the agency's permitting processes and with the state's Act 250 land-use regulations. During the penultimate stop on her statewide “listening tour,” Moore and her deputy secretary, Peter Walke, sought to assure the...
On Nov. 12, the Vermont Jazz Center presented an outstanding We Four concert dedicated to the music of John Coltrane. The band played wonderfully. The audience loved it. The heinous bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four young girls, inspired Coltrane and his classic quartet to record a heartbreakingly beautiful work, “Alabama.” Coltrane is forever linked to the struggles of African-Americans for liberation and freedom. His music was an inspiration for the Black...
BRATTLEBORO-When Daniel Guerra taught at the middle and high schools in Brattleboro, some of the most creative, and possibly restless, students would sketch him as he stood before the class. "There were some that were pretty striking," he said. "Like, 'Whoa. You're really good.'" And of course, the school hallways were adorned with students' paintings, photography, sculpture, and other creations. "I'm probably a little biased," he said, "but I would just often come across really incredible works of art." Now,
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