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Talking about life insurance

VERMONT - The COVID-19 pandemic changed consumer perceptions about life insurance. According to the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association, seven-in-10 Americans agree that the pandemic has led them to reevaluate their long-term financial goals, which may include life insurance. Having...

Dot’s Restaurant after Tropical Storm Irene in 2011.

This Week in History (9/23 - 9/30)

10 years ago:
Facing what appeared to be insurmountable financial and engineering challenges, Patty and John Reagan reluctantly decided they would not be able to save Dot’s Restaurant after the riverside diner was severely damaged by flooding during Tropical Storm Irene....

Carinthia Lodge at Mount Snow.

Vail Resorts to require indoor masks, vaccination for winter employees

DOVER - Vail Resorts announced its winter operating plan for the 2021 to 2022 ski-and-ride season.
Mountain access: Vail Resorts will not have a mountain reservation system this season and will load lifts and gondolas at normal capacity, optimizing guest movement around its resorts. ...

Public art project progressing

WILMINGTON - The long-awaited Beaver Street Art Project is closer to completion. Steel art for the project, which will result in an art installation on the wall next to The Richards Group on Beaver Street, is in the process of being fabricated by artists Elise and Payne Junker, of Junker Studio...

The East Dover Fire Department held an open house to dedicate a new flagpole for former fire chief and longtime firefighter Leonard Hall, and to commemorate 9/11. Randy Capitani

In memory of the fallen

The East Dover Fire Department held an open house Saturday, September 11, to dedicate a new flagpole for former fire chief and longtime firefighter Leonard Hall, who died earlier this year, and to commemorate 9/11. Firefighter Hayden Meckle reads the Firefighters Prayer in remembrance of fallen...

Claudette Hollenbeck

Aging in Place: New to the valley? Time to meet new people

The pandemic has changed so many things, rituals and patterns of behavior we all just took for granted. People have discovered new ways to live and communicate (and dodge the law). We certainly are an imaginative and creative species. My grandson, age 21, was telling me yesterday about the sites...

Laura Stevenson

One-Minute Book Reviews: A memoir and warning about cults

Gerette Buglion, “An Everyday Cult,” Rootstock Publishing, 2021
When she was the new mother of her 6-month-old daughter, author Gerette Buglion visited “Doug,” a therapist who had been recommended to her by two friends. She was looking for spiritual fulfillment, but she also wanted to talk...

Leinonens join Four Seasons

WEST DOVER - Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty announces that Cindy and Cliff Leinonen have joined the company’s Mount Snow office as the Houseworks Vermont team.
The Leinonens work in Massachusetts where they have been the owners and brokers of Houseworks Realty for the past 20-...

Silibia meeting with constituents

DOVER - Rep. Laura Sibilia will be meeting with constituents at the Dover Free Library on Tuesday, September 21, from 6 to 7 pm. This is the next in an ongoing series of constituent meetings in the Windham-Bennington district of Wardsboro, Dover, Searsburg, Somerset, Readsboro, Stamford, and...

Vermont climate plan to be discussed in East Dorset

EAST DORSET - From hotter days to more frequent and intense storms, Vermont’s climate patterns are clearly shifting and impacting the state. On Wednesday, September 22, state officials, local leaders, and members of the Vermont Climate Council invite the public to attend an in-person event at...