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Students, volunteers excited for adaptive ski program return
DOVER - With several snowy days under our belts already, it’s no surprise that skiing is on the minds of many. In particular, students and volunteers for the schools program at Adaptive Sports at Mount Snow are...
10 years ago:
The Whitingham Ladies Benevolent Society celebrated 150 years of service to residents of the Deerfield Valley.  The sesquicentennial was recognized by Vermont Secretary of State Deb Markowitz and Gov. Jim Douglas, who presented the organization with a Vermont...

Brenda Strysko
Nurse practitioners are becoming a more common health partner for many Vermonters. According to a 2018 report by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Americans make over 870 million visits to NPs every year. Still, many patients are not aware that NPs can capably serve as a primary...
Frost Heaves by T. Stores Green Writers Press, 2018
The title story in these 13 intricately linked short stories is the last, but the metaphor of emotions that push themselves up from beneath the thick surface of ordinary lives deftly describes the whole. The collection...
Former POW tells of surviving German camp
MARLBORO- On December 31, 1943, Richard Hamilton left his West Brattleboro home and drove his 1940 convertible into town to join the US Army Air Force. He and many like him knew that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor would call...
READSBORO- The Readsboro Historical Society has opened a new exhibit focusing on Readsboro’s rich WWI history just in time for Veterans Day, which will mark the 100th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that brought an end to combat in 1918. The new exhibit features community input from...
10 years ago:
Vermont delivered Barack Obama’s second highest margin of victory in the 2008 presidential election, with 67% of Vermonters casting ballots for the president-elect, and 32% voting for his rival John McCain.  In a departure from tradition, most valley towns...
In the last article I asked for letters to the editor or phone calls to me at home with ideas from the public about what might be missing here in the Deerfield Valley in services for seniors. I guess we must be doing pretty well since no one wrote a letter and only one nice lady from Halifax...
10 years ago:
The owners of the Sawyer Mansion in Whitingham called in a team of paranormal investigators after they had a number of ghostly experiences in the house.  The investigators claimed they also had a number of supernatural encounters, including ghostly voices and...
“The Underneath” by Melanie Finn, Two Dollar Radio, 2018
Kay Ward was once an intrepid international journalist in Uganda, writing a story about the atrocities of General Christmas and his child soldiers.  Now she is the mother of two children and the wife of documentary...

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