DUMMERSTON — Many thanks to Ian Diamondstone and The Commons for the fine article on Mrs. Dalem and Dalem's Chalet. Very well done!
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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...
BRATTLEBORO-Much of southern Vermont is remembering the impact of the life of Ann (Annie) Richards, who died unexpectedly on Oct. 11 at the age of 45. A proud Vermonter whose family roots dated back to the mid-1700s, Richards, who had a private practice as a family psychiatric nurse practitioner in child and adolescent mental health, created a life of service to others. Friends say she leveraged her desire to consistently build community and made a walloping impact that will leave...
WEST TOWNSHEND-Nancy Braus, former owner of Everyone's Books, unequivocally states: "Vermont does not ban books." She has a point. The state of Vermont and public school districts do not appear to be banning books. But Braus, when she owned the bookstore, did her best to block her clientele from access to certain books - specifically anything written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Not only would she not have his books on display in her store, she would not order them...
BRATTLEBORO-The locally rooted Vermont Film and Folklore Festival (VFFF) casts a wide net. Based again this year in Manchester, with several screenings added for the first time at Brattleboro's Latchis Theatre, it celebrates film as "the universal contemporary medium which simulates experiences and communicates images, ideas, stories, and emotions through [...] moving images," according to the festival's website. "Folklore is the traditional medium of poems, myths, legends, and tales shared by a group of people," the organization says. "Both film...
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