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Bailey Cummisky, right, and friends enjoying themselves at Vermont Academy. A new program aims to make the school more affordable to Vermont residents.
DEERFIELD VALLEY- This is National School Choice Week and Gov. Phil Scott weighed in by signing a proclamation supporting the week and school choice in the state.
Vermont offers a number of choice options, depending on the town or school district and whether or not it operates a high...
“The West Will Swallow You: Essays” by Leath Tonino Trinity University Press, 2019 “The West Will Swallow You” is Leath Tonino’s second collection of essays concerning his self-described “aimless appreciative wandering” around America’s back country.  The first collection, “The...

Aging in Place: Claudette Hollenbeck
Who will remain sexually active longer, men who self-identify as conservative or men who self identify as liberal? What would you guess? Well, the very long-term study of men at Harvard and the control group of men of the same age, (19 at the start of the study in 1938), from Boston inner city...
10 years ago:
Twin Valley School Board Chair Ed Metcalfe announced he would not seek reelection after 10 years on the Whitingham School Board and seven years on the Twin Valley School Board.  Metcalfe was one of the original members of the Whitingham board that met with...
Editor’s note: This is the first in an occasional series about the history of Wilmington. It is being written in advance of Old Home Week, scheduled for July 30 to August 2 of this year.
WILMINGTON - Up Lisle Hill Road, there’s a small, quiet park. Some people use it now and then, but it’s...
WILMINGTON- What kind of inspiration does it take for someone to backcountry ski all 110 Vermont peaks above 3,000 feet in elevation?  
“It being a bad idea,” says Spencer Crispe with a laugh.  “ I’ve always been kind of attracted to ludicrous ideas. Anything that is objectively...
“The Red Lotus” by Chris Bohjalian
Doubleday, 2019
Austin and Alexis look like the perfect couple. Even the assonance of their names draws smiling attention. And they have a story: they met six months ago, when Alexis, an ER doctor, sutured the bullet holes in Austin’s arm after he...

Legislative Update: Sen. Jeanette White
Last week in the Statehouse felt like we never left.  Except that there were even more issues that popped up over the summer.  As a reminder, this is the second year of the 2019-2020 biennium so it really is a continuation of everything that happened last year.  I serve on Senate Judiciary in the...
10 years ago:
Wilmington Selectboard members put off action on a petition seeking removal of the Bank Park pergola they received at their regular meeting until the matter could be warned on an upcoming agenda.  The petition, which had 119 qualified signatures, sought an...

Aging in Place: Claudette Hollenbeck
I have been plowing through the 24 pages of statistics in the recent housing analysis for Dover and Wilmington. Since I am severely numerically challenged, this was tough going for me, especially to find a way to write about it that won’t put everyone to sleep. Bottom line, all us old geezers are...

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