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Legislative Update: Sen. Jeanette White
We are just entering our fifth week of the session and things are moving pretty fast. Just as a reminder, I serve on two committees:  Judiciary in the morning, and chair Government Operations in the afternoon.
In Judiciary we have been focusing on the issues of how we treat people on...
10 years ago:
Congressman Peter Welch met with local business leaders at the Hermitage Inn to discuss economic development.  Welch listened as chamber of commerce executive director Laura Sibilia described the work that had been done since his last visit during an economic...
DOVER - In recent weeks, reports have emerged about a multi-week saga that involved a 2004 BMW X3 car stolen from a lot in Brattleboro and recovered in Ohio, with the accused robber, who is also accused of robbing a Bellows Falls bank, inside it. Andrew Dillingham, of Perkinsville, was arrested...
10 years ago:
At a meeting with Vermont Commissioner of Education Armando Vilaseca and other education officials, Twin Valley School Board member Phil Taylor said that the budgets and budget increases at small, rural schools “don’t amount to a hill of beans” in the overall...

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...

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