VERNON-Liberal, progressive, conservative, orthodox, right wing, left wing - descriptive words that we use to...
SAXTONS RIVER-On Tuesday, Nov. 5, I will be voting for Leslie Goldman and Michelle Bos-Lun...
BRATTLEBORO-Dear Brattleboro Voter, You will be receiving an absentee ballot in the mail for the...
BRATTLEBORO-We were thrilled to discover Mollie Burke would be our representative to the State Legislature...
The five members of the recently appointed Green Mountain Care Board have their work cut out for them. Anya Rader Wallack, the board's chair, reeled off a daunting to-do list for each of the new members at the board's first official meeting on Oct. 4. Dr. Allan Ramsay, a primary care physician at Fletcher Allen Health Care, will take the lead on payment reform, workforce development and outreach. Dr. Karen Hein, a pediatrician from Jacksonville, will focus on developing a...
LINDA HECKER is professor emerita at Landmark College, where she spent 32 years of her 50-year teaching career. GUILFORD-It's been three years since a Voices essay in this paper turned my life upside down and made me an outcast in our community. Follow-up articles in the local press amplified my disgrace by quoting false allegations about me without attempting to verify them. I hoped that those who knew me would rise to my defense, but the few who spoke out...
Following last year's successful Vermont performances of “Trial by Jury,” the Amherst, Mass.-based Valley Light Opera (VLO) is returning to Brattleboro for a second year to perform Gilbert and Sullivan's “H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor.” In an energetic, funny, and somewhat silly show, “Pinafore” pokes genial fun at the British class system, patriotism, party politics, the Royal Navy, and the rise, into positions of authority, of unqualified persons. This comic opera in two acts is performed...
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