Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Letters to the Editor
Editor's note: The following is a "My Turn" op-ed by Readsboro resident and former school board chair Larry Hopkins on Readsboro's upcoming Australian ballot vote to ratify or deny a vote by Halifax residents to withdraw from Southern Valley Unified Union School District. Because Halifax and...
To the Editor,
I have served in the Vermont House since 2015 as an elected independent for rural communities here in southern Vermont. While our state is full of innovators and cutting-edge businesses, it is the scenic farms and villages, rural startups and arts culture, trails and...
I have served in the Vermont House since 2015 as an elected independent for rural communities here in southern Vermont. While our state is full of innovators and cutting-edge businesses, it is the scenic farms and villages, rural startups and arts culture, trails and...
To the Editor,
I am writing to express my enthusiastic support for Brenda Siegel for lieutenant governor in our upcoming primary. As fellow activists, Brenda and I have worked side by side on the economic justice issues of livable wages and paid family and medical leave for working...
I am writing to express my enthusiastic support for Brenda Siegel for lieutenant governor in our upcoming primary. As fellow activists, Brenda and I have worked side by side on the economic justice issues of livable wages and paid family and medical leave for working...
To the Editor,
Let me tell you why I support Tim Ashe for lieutenant governor, and why I urge Bennington County Democratic primary voters to do the same.
When Ashe became the senate’s leader four years ago, he said he’d show as much concern for Bennington County as he would for his...
Let me tell you why I support Tim Ashe for lieutenant governor, and why I urge Bennington County Democratic primary voters to do the same.
When Ashe became the senate’s leader four years ago, he said he’d show as much concern for Bennington County as he would for his...
To the Editor,
In November the Trump campaign and the Vermont Republican Party announced a partnership they labeled the Vermont Trump Victory Team. The announcement touted supposed Trump accomplishments, including, oddly, “controlling health care costs,” and announced a goal of “electing...
In November the Trump campaign and the Vermont Republican Party announced a partnership they labeled the Vermont Trump Victory Team. The announcement touted supposed Trump accomplishments, including, oddly, “controlling health care costs,” and announced a goal of “electing...
To the Editor,
It was 1965. Dad and Mom took their four kids to Mississippi for the march for voter registration. Daddy told me that if we got separated, to know that “remember when you learned in school that the policemen are your friends? Well, forget it.” That was so true there. Mom was...
It was 1965. Dad and Mom took their four kids to Mississippi for the march for voter registration. Daddy told me that if we got separated, to know that “remember when you learned in school that the policemen are your friends? Well, forget it.” That was so true there. Mom was...
To the Editor,
Saying thank you certainly isn’t sufficient to all the people who have encouraged our family in so many ways during this difficult time in which our youngest daughter was attacked in Virginia at an open house event.
It is so hard to believe the evil that is in some...
Saying thank you certainly isn’t sufficient to all the people who have encouraged our family in so many ways during this difficult time in which our youngest daughter was attacked in Virginia at an open house event.
It is so hard to believe the evil that is in some...
To the Editor,
I am a Canadian, who back in l977 enrolled in graduate school in Vermont and a few years later became director of admissions at Marlboro College.
My family and I left Vermont in l989; however, as the decades have passed, I have come to more and more deeply appreciate...
I am a Canadian, who back in l977 enrolled in graduate school in Vermont and a few years later became director of admissions at Marlboro College.
My family and I left Vermont in l989; however, as the decades have passed, I have come to more and more deeply appreciate...
To the Editor,
I urge the Vermont Attorney General’s office to investigate and stop the unnecessary closure of Marlboro College, sale of the campus to Democracy Builders, and gift of Marlboro College’s assets to Emerson College.
The proposed program at Emerson College will not...
I urge the Vermont Attorney General’s office to investigate and stop the unnecessary closure of Marlboro College, sale of the campus to Democracy Builders, and gift of Marlboro College’s assets to Emerson College.
The proposed program at Emerson College will not...
To the Editor,
The Wardsboro Fourth of July committee started planning as usual in January for the street fair. Then, bang, in January, the world gets hit with COVID-19. Brakes come on. You think that it can’t last long. So we took a step back and waited. April came and went, not really...
The Wardsboro Fourth of July committee started planning as usual in January for the street fair. Then, bang, in January, the world gets hit with COVID-19. Brakes come on. You think that it can’t last long. So we took a step back and waited. April came and went, not really...
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