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BELLOWS FALLS-Happy Spring! Shh, the snow has gone. I am saying this quietly, lest I...
BRATTLEBORO-It's here: the season of good cheer. With days and nights filled with holiday-themed office...
BRATTLEBORO-I was full of Christmas cheer as I took a trolley from Cambridge to Boston...
BELLOWS FALLS-It has taken two years since researchers first began accumulating evidence, but on June 7, scientists announced that shortnose sturgeon are living in the Connecticut River as far north as the hydroelectric dam in Bellows Falls. Sturgeon exist in the fossil record going back 250 million years and, for thousands of years, have been native species in the Connecticut River. But this is the first time that sturgeon, which can grow up to 4.5 feet in length and live...
PUTNEY-Rep. Mike Mrowicki, incumbent for the Windham-4 district (Putney and Dummerston), is running unopposed only in this summer's primary election, not for the November race. He will have two challengers, and one of them will be me. I am a primary progressive. I identify as an independent. My purpose is simple. More Vermont farms are the answer. More Vermont farms are the answer if you are concerned about climate change; if you are not worried about climate change, more farms...
GUILFORD-On a 2017 YouTube video, the popular, multistyled, genre-molding English singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran calls Luke Concannon his "childhood hero." "I grew up listening to him, I went on tour with him, doing guitar checking and learning everything there is to know about performing, writing songs, singing, playing guitar," Sheeran says. "So I owe a large amount of my career to him." Since those days, Concannon and his wife and music partner, vocalist Stephanie Hollenberg, have settled in Guilford, entering the...
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