It’s back to school season. In the next few weeks schools around the region and across the country will be starting up for the new academic year. Whether kindergarten or college, there is something special and exciting or perhaps even a bit frightening for students as they head into that first...
Today, newspaper editors across the country are penning columns in response to President Donald Trump’s ongoing broadsides against the press. This editorial joins hundreds of others in response to a call from the Boston Globe for newspapers large and small to comment in their editorial pages...
Tuesday is Vermont’s 2018 primary election. While for many the level of excitement generated by the primary races rivals that of watching a solar field produce electricity, there are reasons to pay attention and to vote this year.
In some ways, this is Vermont’s most interesting primary...
“The Towns of Dover and Wilmington are facing a period of economic transformation. Long dependent on a steady tourist activity for their job base, it is essential, over the long term, that they begin to expand their base in new directions.”
Strategic Economic Development Plan For Dover and...
There are many who have concerns about the economy of the Deerfield Valley. That’s understandable, given the flameout that has taken place at the Hermitage Club and the drag that collapse has put on the local economy. No doubt, the damage to many local businesses is incalculable.
Its...
Folks of a certain age may remember a number of “end-of-the-world” events that were sure to cause massive disruption of life as we knew it at the time. In each instance, prognosticators said major chaos was inevitable and likely unavoidable.
Who can forget the Y2K computer glitch?...
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
“The New Colossus” - Emma Lazarus, 1883.
“We cannot...
The school year is coming to an end, as local public schools wrap up this week. When students come back in the fall there will be some noticeable changes and, we hope, some not-so-noticeable changes.
The noticeable changes will be the usual, numerous things that happen every year....
Last week we reported on the Wilmington Selectboard setting priorities for municipal improvement projects. They include expanding the town sewer line east to the SVMC Deerfield Valley health center, sidewalk improvement along East Main Street, improving digital connectivity, and revisiting plans...