Brenda Lynn Siegel, the executive director of End Homelessness Vermont, is a policy advocate, educator,
Laura Chapman is a civic volunteer, social justice activist, and works with human-services nonprofits that...
Laura Sibilia represents Dover, Jamaica, Somerset, Stratton, and Wardsboro in the Vermont House of Representatives,
Robin Rieske is facilitator of CSUR, a collaborative effort that includes Voices of Hope, Turning...
The news came on April Fools' Day, but it was not a joke: Windham County Sheriff Keith Clark announced his retirement, effective June 30. Clark, first elected in 2006, was starting his fourth term. In his April 1 public retirement letter, he said the decision “follows much discussion with family, colleagues, and friends.” Clark said his wife of 35 years, Bonnie, has been working in North Carolina the past 18 months “and we are both looking forward to again sharing...
Vermont Republican Party Chairman David Sunderland is taking us all down a bad road in his opposition to the proposal to raise the Vermont gas taxes incrementally over 10 or more years. Yes, that is part of the proposal. It is also part of the point. Even Exxon's scientists knew as far back as the late 1970s that such carbon pollution was beginning to change our world's climate in significant ways. (This is according to an extensive report from the...
During Friday evening's Gallery Walk, the Celebration Brass Band will be on hand to entertain at the Robert H. River Garden on Main Street, home of Strolling of the Heifers. “Farms in Seven Media,” the exhibit at the Stroll's Gallery at the Garden, is on view through August. The Gallery will be open from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.; the music starts at approximately 6. Organizers say revelers should bring their dancing shoes. The Celebration Brass Band is Brattleboro's taste of...
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