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One-Minute Book Reviews: A wild hare and a conversion

“Raising Hare: A Memoir”
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon Books, 2025 Most people are familiar with the custom of calling a young animal by a name different from its parents’: “fawn” for a young deer; “calf” for a young cow, and so on. But as Chloe Dalton points out in “Raising Hare,” relatively...

This Week in History: April 10 - 17

10 years ago:
Wilmington received a $300,000 federal community block grant to extend a West Main Street sidewalk, thanks to the efforts of economic development specialist Gretchen Havreluk. The sidewalk extension was intended to improve pedestrian safety (eliminating a...

People were lined up in the Bank Park pergola to watch the 2011 Memorial Day parade in Wilmington. File

This Week in History: April 3 - 10

10 years ago:
The Vermont Legislature was debating a bill that would mandate school consolidation, cap school budget increases, and end so-called “unfunded mandates” by the Legislature. But when the bill struggled to attract enough support, lawmakers offered amendments to...

One-Minute Book Reviews: Writing book suppressed grief

“Memorial Days: A Memoir.”
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, 2025 On Memorial Day, 2019, Geraldine Brooks finished a morning’s procrastination by writing an email to Tony Horwitz, her husband, who was on a book tour in Washington, DC. Finally, she opened her computer’s file of “...

Earth Day essays sought from Vermont students

VERMONT- Attorney General Charity Clark wants to hear young Vermonters’ thoughts on the environment. For the fifth year in a row, the attorney general’s office is holding an Earth Day Essay Challenge for Vermont students to submit essays.
This year, the office is expanding the challenge to...

Volunteers sought to help those with serious illness

WINDHAM COUNTY- The Serious Illness Program was created by Brattleboro Area Hospice to offer support, solace, and assistance to people going through a life-altering serious illness that may or may not carry a terminal prognosis. Volunteer training will begin in April. This is an excellent...

This Week in History

10 years ago:
The House bill that would eventually become Act 46 was out of the House and headed for the Senate. The bill would require districts to consolidate to create larger districts, with a target of 1,100 pupils per district. The plan would eliminate local town...

Claudette Hollenbeck

Aging in Place: It isn’t easy to be old in any era, especially now

The phrase cui bono? (who benefits?) keeps popping into my mind over and over again these days as I watch the TV news. It seems to be the subtext to almost every story and the question of who it is that is benefiting gets pretty obscure. And yet benefit to self is the core motivator for Homo...

The Sprague & Son sugarhouse lights up the night sky.

The Sprague & Son Sugarhouse lights up the night sky.

Celebrate Vermont’s maple magic

VERMONT- The state continues to lead the nation by a commanding margin as the top maple producing state. In 2024, Vermont’s sugar makers produced 3.1 million gallons according to USDA statistics, which represents just over half of the US production of maple syrup.
With warmer temps this...

Students from Twin Valley show off their skills in the 2018 Jr. Iron Chef competition.

Students from Twin Valley show off their skills in the 2018 Jr. Iron Chef competition.

Cooking up something good

ESSEX JUNCTION - Teams of young chefs from Leland & Gray Middle/High School and Twin Valley High School are some of the 53 teams of elementary, middle, and high school students from across Vermont who are planning to gather in Essex Junction, Saturday, March 29, for the 17th annual Jr. Iron...