Letters to the Editor

To the Editor, 
Despite a very cold and windy day, approximately 60 community members of all ages met at the Dover School on Green Up Day Saturday, May 1, to volunteer their time to help clean up our town.  Many green bags of trash were collected, and Dover looks much better due to...
To the Editor:
The Deerfield Valley Community Partnership had the opportunity to work with many partners these past months and we are very thankful. 
First, we collaborated with Out in the Open to participate in the Collaborative Care Package Project to bring care packages to...
To the Editor,
Green Up Day is alive and well! This year’s Whitingham and Jacksonville Green Up Day had a great turnout; volunteers cleaned up 90% of our town roads. 
Thank you to all who came out to help. Big thanks go out to Stan Janovsky and the road crew for their help...
To the Editor, 
We seek your help in getting our Deerfield Valley community through the late stages of the COVID. The pandemic has taken a deep toll on all of us. For us working in health care, it is abundantly clear that vaccination works and is safe.  
This is not a political,...
To the Editor, 
I am writing this letter out of concern about the loss of public passage on the trail that goes south along the eastern side of the East Branch of the Deerfield River. 
This trail has recently been posted with “No Trespassing” signs by the owner / logger of a 383...
To the Editor,
Over the past few years, I have been following the discussion in Vermont regarding the taxation of military pensions. I remain fully perplexed, as does our governor, by our legislative inability to exempt military pensions from taxation.
Vermont is one of only three...
To the Editor,
Last week marked both National Nurses Week and Teacher Appreciation Week.
These two professions have worked harder than ever during the pandemic. Recently, the Vermont State School Nurses’ Association estimate a shortage of school nurses in K-12 schools in Vermont.  ...
To the Editor,
On May 8, Grace Cottage Family Health & Hospital held its 12th annual “Spring into Health” 5K.
 In light of the pandemic, we had a “hybrid,” event this year with some people participating virtually and some participating in person. In the live event, participants...
To the Editor, 
Vermont’s Green Up Day was May 1.  In Wilmington, 71 people volunteered to pick up roadside litter.  They filled over 200 Green Up bags as they covered nearly all of our town roads.   A few public parking lots and riverbanks also received the Green Up treatment this year....
To the Editor
You know, I have been a full time resident and voter of West Dover since 1992.  I have helped many people over the years, by working for and giving to charities and directly to people in order to make their and their families lives, a little easier.  I pay all my taxes and...

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