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Voices

Why some high-income Vermonters say, ‘Raise my taxes’

Affluent Vermonters understand that their neighbors are being pushed out of their communities due to a lack of affordable housing, high property taxes, and other factors. By paying a bit more income tax, they will also benefit from a healthier, more-just state.
By
Chuck Collins
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 — Issue 761

Chuck Collins is co-editor of [email protected].

Voices

Not looking away

By
Amy-Louise Pfeffer

BELLOWS FALLS-Fellow citizens, I write to you with a request founded in feelings of love,

With 14% tax increase, what happens to those struggling economically?

By
Lynne Kennedy

BRATTLEBORO-I've been a supporter of Emilie Kornheiser since she first ran for Legislature. Now, however,

Let’s make our future as bright as the past we remember

By
Shelby Brimmer

Shelby Brimmer is the owner, with Paul Martocci, of Martocci's Restaurant on Elliot Street in...

Not furious, but thankful, for end of Roe v. Wade

By
Danielle Miller

DEERFIELD, MASS.-Two years later, Democrats are still furious over Roe v. Wade being overturned. But...

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News

‘Weapons of death into tools of life’

By
Annie Landenberger
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 — Issue 712

On April 20, a 12-year-old girl was shot and killed in Hartford, Connecticut, while sitting in a parked car. “The same thing happened - also in Hartford - 29 years ago. That should have been a turning point. It wasn't. We need to just keep working at it with faith, prayer, and action and know we're not alone.” So said Right Rev. James Curry, retired Episcopal bishop suffragan of Connecticut, in a recent conversation about his upcoming visit to Brattleboro.

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Voices

Developer addresses ‘areas of persistent confusion’

By
Elizabeth Bridgewater
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 — Issue 757

Elizabeth Bridgewater is executive director of the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust, whose Alice Holway Drive apartment project in Putney is the subject of a series of appeals and lawsuits against the town regarding the project's approval process. As the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust and its co-developer Evernorth continue to plan for breaking ground on the Alice Holway Drive Development that will create 25 new rental homes in Putney, a lot of questions have been circulating about the project.

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Arts

A new take on an old chestnut

By
Annie Landenberger
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 — Issue 759

BELLOWS FALLS-Wild Goose Players (WGP) presents the nine-time Tony Award–winning musical Fiddler on the Roof this weekend and next at the Bellows Falls Opera House, 7 Village Square. With some of musical theater's most cherished tunes - Sunrise, Sunset; If I Were a Rich Man; Matchmaker; To Life - Fiddler is about family and community, love and relationships. It cuts across barriers to deliver lessons of tolerance - of acceptance - in the face of prejudice and discrimination. And it...

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