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...
Not long after announcing their intent to shut down Vermont Yankee, Entergy executives agreed to hand over $10 million to boost economic development in Windham County and ease the pain of the nuclear plant's closure. At this point, the state has distributed or committed about half of what Entergy will pay to support what's been dubbed the Windham County Economic Development Program. And officials say they're seeing “a very positive impact” in spite of the program's slow start. A new...
How interesting that on April 1, we were reminded that on that date in 1933, Nazi Germany staged a day-long national boycott of Jewish-owned businesses, while that day's headlines in 2014 told about a call for boycotting Indiana because of that state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act. We all want the freedom to exercise our faith convictions as protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, just as the Jews in Germany wanted to live according to their faith while...
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra's annual TD Bank Summer Festival Tour, presented by Northstar Fireworks, returns for 2019 with a July 3 performance at the Grafton Ponds Outdoor Center. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. for picnicking, and the concert begins at 7:30 p.m. In case of rain, the concert will be moved to the Bellows Falls Union High School Auditorium in Westminster. Making her VSO debut, guest conductor Sharon Lavery will showcase composers who set America to music: Gershwin, Joplin, Bernstein,
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