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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...
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...
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
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.
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.
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...
10 years ago:
Local residents learned that work on Mount Snow’s planned snowmaking pipeline along Handle Road could close the road for up to five months.  The road would be closed for construction during daylight hours and only on weekdays.  Mount Snow’s goal was to lay 9,...
GRAFTON- The Windham Foundation, a nonprofit that works to enhance Vermont’s economic, cultural, and civic life, has announced changes to its Grants Program.
New this year, the foundation will offer two grant cycles,  with each cycle having two distinct mission-driven focus areas. The...

Claudette Hollenbeck
When I moved  to Brookdale Filmore Pond in October 2023, I commenced what has felt like a to-the-death struggle with the TV and internet provider here, Comcast Xfinity.   It would take all the pages of this newspaper to explain the various problems that we could not straighten out.  The...
WILMINGTON - Caya Greenspan-Layman, of Wilmington, has been named a Fulbright Study/Research Award semi-finalist.
A graduate of Golden Eagle Charter, Greenspan-Layman graduated from Muhlenberg College summa cum laude in 2022 with a bachelor of arts degree in sociology.
In...

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