When I was a working stiff, my motto was “another day, another dollar.” Now that I am old, it is “another day, another dolor (pain).” Today happens to be my right thumb joint.
With so much time on my hands, I do a lot of thinking on these gray, gloomy early spring days. I am...
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Features
Claudette Hollenbeck
Windham-2 Representative Laura Sibilia
Our systems are in trouble. Recent detentions of legally present individuals, including a Turkish doctoral student and a Palestinian resident of Vermont, raise urgent questions about whether our institutions are upholding core American principles like due process, free speech, and equal...
“Bills Lumber” to screen in Dover
DOVER - On Sunday, April 27, filmmaker Theresa Maggio will join her documentary subjects, Everett and Alan Bills, at a special screening at MHCA Dover Cinema and Arts.
Maggio will show her film, “Bills Lumber,” which documents the...
DOVER - On Sunday, April 27, filmmaker Theresa Maggio will join her documentary subjects, Everett and Alan Bills, at a special screening at MHCA Dover Cinema and Arts.
Maggio will show her film, “Bills Lumber,” which documents the...
“Raising Hare: A Memoir”
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon Books, 2025 Most people are familiar with the custom of calling a young animal by a name different from its parents’: “fawn” for a young deer; “calf” for a young cow, and so on. But as Chloe Dalton points out in “Raising Hare,” relatively...
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon Books, 2025 Most people are familiar with the custom of calling a young animal by a name different from its parents’: “fawn” for a young deer; “calf” for a young cow, and so on. But as Chloe Dalton points out in “Raising Hare,” relatively...
10 years ago:
Wilmington received a $300,000 federal community block grant to extend a West Main Street sidewalk, thanks to the efforts of economic development specialist Gretchen Havreluk. The sidewalk extension was intended to improve pedestrian safety (eliminating a...
Wilmington received a $300,000 federal community block grant to extend a West Main Street sidewalk, thanks to the efforts of economic development specialist Gretchen Havreluk. The sidewalk extension was intended to improve pedestrian safety (eliminating a...
People were lined up in the Bank Park pergola to watch the 2011 Memorial Day parade in Wilmington. File
10 years ago:
The Vermont Legislature was debating a bill that would mandate school consolidation, cap school budget increases, and end so-called “unfunded mandates” by the Legislature. But when the bill struggled to attract enough support, lawmakers offered amendments to...
The Vermont Legislature was debating a bill that would mandate school consolidation, cap school budget increases, and end so-called “unfunded mandates” by the Legislature. But when the bill struggled to attract enough support, lawmakers offered amendments to...
“Memorial Days: A Memoir.”
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, 2025 On Memorial Day, 2019, Geraldine Brooks finished a morning’s procrastination by writing an email to Tony Horwitz, her husband, who was on a book tour in Washington, DC. Finally, she opened her computer’s file of “...
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, 2025 On Memorial Day, 2019, Geraldine Brooks finished a morning’s procrastination by writing an email to Tony Horwitz, her husband, who was on a book tour in Washington, DC. Finally, she opened her computer’s file of “...
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...
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...
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...
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