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...
Recent changes to the Vermont liquor control laws have made it easier for small distillers to market and sell their products. Labyrinthian permitting and selling restrictions in the law made it dauntingly complicated for specialty houses to reach their public before the simplification of Sec. 1, VSA 2 went on the books in the last legislative session. Act 102 was passed and signed in May of this year. The biggest changes, distillers say, is that they are now allowed to...
The premise of Brandie Starr's piece is that landlords don't have the best interests of their community if they don't support a proposal to limit up-front rental costs. I disagree with that premise. My husband and I are landlords of a three-unit building in town and have been renting it for more than 30 years. We currently charge first and last month's rent, and security deposit. For folks who struggle with the up-front deposit, we have offered a payment plan...
In a collaboration with Tribeca Film Festival former director Nancy Schafer, Next Stage Arts Project in Putney presents [framed], a brand new series of feature length documentary films. Beginning on March 30, at 7:30 p.m., at Next Stage at 15 Kimball Hill, [framed] will run for six consecutive Thursdays. Each movie will be presented by the filmmaker with a Q&A after the screening. A documentary film, according to the OED, may be simply a nonfictional motion picture intended to document...
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