To the Editor: I wish to commend The Deerfield Valley News for its excellent reporting of Town Meetings in the area, but I would like to make several observations. First, in Anita Rafael’s other...
WASI ambulance service is alive and well To the Editor, I have read with interest The Deerfield Valley News article regarding the Halifax Town Meeting and the rationale for an amendment presented, which now will provide $20,000 for EMS ...
Education funding broken, needs change To the Editor: Act 60 is broken. It feels like we are stuck in the mud – the more we spin our wheels, the messier things get. Just look at all the Band-Aids that have been tacked on over the ye...
Changes to legislative rules help tax payers To the Editor, I know many of you heard about this at Town Meeting, but the event is important enough for all of us that I take the liberty of saying it again here in a letter. A 10-word change ...
In memory of sweet Donna To the Editor: She had a way with words. Two, to be precise. The publisher of this fine rag told me to be careful how I used those two words as he might have difficulty allowing their use. So to ...
Hook magician will be missed To the Editor: Donna, the blood person at the Deerfield Valley Health Center, always had a warm and friendly greeting as she accompanied you to her office from the waiting room. And as the true pr...
Excellent work To the Editor: I want to thank the Wilmington town road crew for the excellent job they all do so that mail can be delivered. Also, thanks for all the extras they do as well. Becky Cable Wilmingt...
Mountain, staff are generous To the Editor: Mount Snow helped just in the nick of time. For the past three years, Mount Snow has donated a portion of the proceeds from their Employee Appreciation Days to our fuel assistance ...
Shift focus to fight sprawl To the Editor: Now that the town meeting vote is completed and it has been decided that the pergola will stay, could those who care about the aesthetics of our town put their energy into improving...
To the Editor: I want to thank everyone who chose to vote for me in my recent campaign for re-election to the Wilmington Selectboard. A special thanks to Lee and Andy Schindel, Bruce Mullen, and F...
To the Editor, Now that the pergola opponents have been voted down you’d think that issue has been put to rest. Guess again. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about human nature it is that peopl...
To the Editor: Winding my way home from the 225th annual Town Meeting of the town of Wardsboro, I had the following reflections: 1. This is a wonderful institution and, as our moderator Dr. Backu...
To the Editor: Some antinuclear activists and ambitious politicians paint a rosy economic history of the shutdown of Maine Yankee. The fact is that employment went from 500 when the plant closed t...
To the Editor: A quiet effort to limit school choice is underway in Montpelier. School consolidation bills now in the House and Senate Education Committees (S.252 and H.755) would bar families in...
To the Editor: Aching backs, strained muscles, blisters, soaked gloves, clogged snowblowers, broken shovels, and even plows. Sound familiar last week? And who said New England winter storms can’t ...