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BRATTLEBORO — Sometime today, if everything goes A-OK, John Glenn will be orbiting the Earth in the space shuttle Discovery. Glenn, who in 1962 became the first American to orbit the earth, is our ...
Lasse Jeppesen Schmidt, a native of Denmark, is a former journalist. BRATTLEBORO-I will be frank with you: This piece is the result of self-imposed psychotherapy. I am still processing the events that ...
TOWNSHEND-Grace Cottage Family Health and Hospital has been chosen as the recipient of a $1 million grant toward the construction of a new primary care clinic building through the Northern Border ...
Marc Bernard Schauber is the executive director of the Coalition for Vermont Student Equity. "Please be in touch with your questions, concerns and suggestions," he writes to potential voters in the ...
BELLOWS FALLS-Today in my mailbox I found a big, glossy, glaring postcard (6 in. × 11 in., to be exact). It was from a group calling itself Americans for Prosperity. That sounds nice. Prosperity - who ...
BRATTLEBORO-St. Brigid's Kitchen and Pantry on Walnut Street marked 43 years of offering free hot meals to the food insecure when it kicked off its anniversary fundraising appeal on St. Patrick's Day.
BELLOWS FALLS-The River Artisans Cooperative (RAC) is one of the oldest cooperative shops in Vermont, showcasing a variety of locally created art and crafts items. This past season, RAC has seen ...
BRATTLEBORO-The Annual Town Election takes place for all town voters on Town Meeting Day, Tuesday, March 4, and eight candidates are competing for three seats on the Selectboard. Oscar Heller is a ...
BRATTLEBORO-After serving two years of her three-year term on the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) school board, Dummerston representative Eva Nolan has resigned. "I have made the difficult ...
Nicholas Boke is a freelance writer and international educational consultant. CHESTER-It all started when a community-action organization emailed concerns in advance of the Liberty Food Fest, which ...
Annie Smith has described herself in legislative testimony as an animal activist. "We do this all in our free time and push other things aside because it is so important to us, others, and the planet ...
GUILFORD - The Guilford Cares Senior Support Group meets every first and third Thursday of the month at 1 p.m., at the Broad Brook Community Center, 3940 Guilford Center Rd. Deb Albright and Mary ...