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...
Nearly 150 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, human trafficking is considered the second fastest growing criminal industry in the world. People may have calculated their carbon footprint, but few think about the size of their slavery footprint, said Mei-Mei Ellerman, a scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center and a founding board member of the Polaris Project, from her family home in Townshend. The breadth of a person's slavery footprint depends on whether they buy...
At the April 4 School Board meeting, the Wardsboro School Board voted unanimously to support the district merger with Dover. At this meeting, representatives from the Agency of Education answered questions from the public regarding Act 46 and explained the options for the Wardsboro School under the law. The representatives made it clear that without changing the current PK-6 structure of the Wardsboro School and possibly giving up secondary school choice, there are no other available structures to pursue. The...
Saint Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179 CE) was a German magistra or monastic leader, mystic, healer, artist, author, counselor, and composer of music. In a Dec. 9-11 weekend retreat/workshop at Immanuel Retreat Center, 12 and 14 Church St., participants will explore her prolific life. From the time she was very young, Hildegard claimed to have visions. She received a prophetic call from God five years after her election in 1411 as magistra, female leader of a monastic foundation or abbess, demanding...
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