The Windham County Sheriff's Office (WCSO) is attempting to change the way that local law...
HomeShare Vermont, a nonprofit that connects people with extra space in their homes to those...
ROCKINGHAM-Rural gardeners and farmers have long known that the common earthworm (also known as the...
EAST DUMMERSTON-A three-alarm fire on Aug. 16 has destroyed a Windham County agricultural landmark. A...
For all the importance of the subject of child sex abuse, only about 20 people showed up a Sept. 23 forum organized by Greg Brown, a member of the Windham Community Advisory Board to the State Police, and Lt. Kraig LaPorte of the Vermont State Police in Brattleboro. Working in close association with the Putney and Dummerston school boards, Brown said the Dummerston forum followed on the heels of a similar forum in Jamaica late last year, as well as...
Rhonda Wainshilbaum is an artisan and a civic volunteer, living and working in Massachusetts, just over the Vermont line. The anti-Israel letter from Jewish Voice for Peace, published in The Commons recently, contained fallacies, omissions, and inaccuracies. Accusing Israel of genocide is a provocative indictment unsupported by facts. It diminishes real acts of genocide - such as those that occurred in the Holocaust and against Armenians and in Rwanda. Since their creation in 1948, Israelis have sought to live in...
"Portals," a series of abstract paintings by Liz Hawkes deNiord, is now on exhibit at Putney Public Library, 55 Main St., through Dec. 2. "Liz's dynamic paintings reflect her immersion in the physical process as well as her love of saturated, radiant color and luminosity," the library said in a news release. "The paintings are both dreamlike and grounded. Her process is one of multiple layering, scraping, covering up, and building up heavily textured surfaces with palette knife and paint.
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