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...
Traditionally, voters in Guilford have organized a “meet the candidates” night at the Broad Brook Grange hall, where the folks running for town offices would introduce themselves to voters. COVID-19 and ongoing renovations to the Grange Hall have disrupted that tradition. Instead, a different sort of event took shape on Feb. 17 at the Vermont Marketplace, the former Outlet Center, on Canal Street. And, by design, only two of the four candidates for the Selectboard were present. Lynn Latulippe King,
In Wisconsin, another unarmed Black man (say his name: Jacob Blake) was shot in the back by a police officer. According to my viewing of the video, there is little evidence that Jacob posed a lethal threat to the policemen, nor anyone else. He was shot seven times in the back and is now likely left paralyzed for life. Protests and unrest are understandable after such an injustice - because these incidents continue to occur over and over again. During...
The nonprofit arts venue Epsilon Spires will host two events on the evening of Friday, Sept. 2, during downtown's monthly Gallery Walk. Starting at 5 p.m., there will be an opening celebration for “Mundane Monsters,” a multimedia exhibit by Danish artist Kristoffer Ørum, followed at 8 p.m. by an outdoor screening of two early documentaries about skateboarding and surfing as part of the Backlot Cinema Series. Ørum, whose work has been shown extensively throughout Denmark and internationally, uses a combination...
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