BRATTLEBORO — Nicole Plympton was my daughter's teacher last year, and she was so loved and respected! I am thrilled that she is getting this recognition. Congratulations!
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...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. BRATTLEBORO-To the Brattleboro...
Howard Fairman, a native Vermonter, likes to study official public documents and presentations, research their...
Library Director Emily Zervas did not expect hundreds of people to show up for the Aug. 21 eclipse party held on the library's front lawn. But in the days leading up to the big celestial event, she had an inkling it might be popular. “People started calling this week, hysterically looking for eclipse-viewing glasses,” Zervas said. “I only ordered 45 pairs!” NASA's public service campaign, which implored people not to look at the solar eclipse without safety devices, seemed to...
“You'd really do that?” I had asked the night nurse. You'd make me an English muffin and a hot cup of tea?” It was 4:30 on the third morning of my 10-day hospital sojourn. I was starved, and breakfast was many hours away. She soon reappeared with muffin and tea, and left me munching wearily, in a rare, quiet moment. I thought, Dear Lord, please - bless her forever and ever as I sipped the warming brew. Would I have...
Painter Carol Keiser of Putney has donated a painting that will be raffled off to support asylum seekers in Windham County. Keiser's colorful painting is a fundraiser for the Community Asylum Seekers Project and its work of providing aid and resources to a half dozen adults and children who are currently living in the county while they await their court dates. Titled Yellow Tulips with Woman Reading, the framed acrylic on canvas measuring 20 by 25 1/2 inches and features...
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