BRATTLEBORO — Mindy Haskins Rogers' piece is impeccable journalism, brilliantly written.
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...
Robin Morgan is the newest member of the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) school board. She will take the seat, vacated when David Schoales resigned, and she will serve until the March election. Morgan was appointed Tuesday, Nov. 15 after an executive session that took close to an hour, with all votes in her favor except for representative Shaun Murphy, who abstained. Chair Kelly Young read a statement celebrating Morgan's “ability to collaborate, her conviction, and integrity.” “We value her...
They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; they will long enjoy the work of their hands.” -Isaiah 65:21–22 (NRSV) In my Christian tradition, which has its roots firmly in Jewish tradition, there is perhaps no more foundational spiritual ethic than...
Print Town: Brattleboro's Legacy of Words, a vivid retelling of Brattleboro's storied printing, publishing, and literary life from its earliest days to the present, will be published in November, with more than 30 writers, many of whom were directly involved in the area's printing history, contributing to its pages. Produced over three years, through research, interviews, and personal memoir, a rich, at times amusing, story emerges. Two stories unearthed in Print Town include a local newspaper man channeling the ending...
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