Letter

Snow globe of democracy

  Dear Editor,  Snow globes are popular and soothing. What’s not to like about a glass globe with a pleasant scene inside, with snow gently falling whenever you shake the globe? But what if those falling flakes are actually bits […]

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Op - Ed, Opinion

Farmer housing, jobs, and the economy

By Anson B. Tebbetts, secretary of the, Food and Markets (VAAFM) From Canaan to Cavendish, and Duxbury to Dummerston, Vermonters are asking for more housing units and better-quality dwellings. Workers and employees, we hear you, asking for more well-constructed homes, […]

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Letter, Op - Ed

Let’s make college the easy choice

Submitted   By Carolyn Weir Editor’s note: This commentary is by Carolyn Weir of Weybridge. She is executive director of the McClure Foundation, an affiliate of the Vermont Community Foundation that works to close opportunity gaps in the state by […]

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Opinion

It’s time for a Vermont State Mushroom 

Submitted   By Rep. Michelle Bos-Lun, D-Westminster Editor’s note: Michelle Bos-Lun is a secondary school teacher in her second term representing Westminster, Rockingham and Brookline in the Vermont House. I recently submitted a bill to create the Vermont State Mushroom […]

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Letter

Try to imagine Gaza 

Dear Editor,  Try to imagine Rutland City without its New England steeples and Grace Church’s organ parts strewn all over Court and West Streets. Imagine a flattened parking garage down the street and Walmart a charred pile of plastic poisoning […]

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