Thursday, March 5, 2026
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Laura Stevenson
Louis Sachar, a prolific author of children’s fiction, is best known for “Holes,” which won both the National Book Award and the Newbery Award in the late 1990s. “Holes” is a witty, slightly postmodern tale and its treatment of social (in)justice quickly earned it a reputation as a children’s...
10 years ago:
Dover officials complained after they found that the town’s 1% local option tax wasn’t being collected on short-term rentals. The town discovered the issue thanks to a Dover economic development program that provided funding for video production companies...
Dover officials complained after they found that the town’s 1% local option tax wasn’t being collected on short-term rentals. The town discovered the issue thanks to a Dover economic development program that provided funding for video production companies...
By Lauren Harkawik
DOVER - Town clerks, it’s fair to say, have a more intimate relationship to town records than your average citizen. In Dover, there was even a time in history when town records were kept at the town clerk’s house. Now, they’re kept at the town office, inside a vault....
DOVER - Town clerks, it’s fair to say, have a more intimate relationship to town records than your average citizen. In Dover, there was even a time in history when town records were kept at the town clerk’s house. Now, they’re kept at the town office, inside a vault....
Claudette Hollenbeck
Retirement is what you do between doctor’s appointments at my stage of life, or so they say. It is a dead bore to spend so much time traveling to and from distant doctors’ offices and then the obligatory cheery, “Hello, how are you today?” from the nurse. I have taken to answering with one word...
10 years ago:
Hermitage Club owner Jim Barnes reached an agreement with the US Attorney’s office in Vermont over unauthorized snowmobile trail work that took place on Green Mountain National Forest land at Haystack. Barnes and the Hermitage Club were fined $25,000 and...
Hermitage Club owner Jim Barnes reached an agreement with the US Attorney’s office in Vermont over unauthorized snowmobile trail work that took place on Green Mountain National Forest land at Haystack. Barnes and the Hermitage Club were fined $25,000 and...
Ellie Roden
Do you know that if you use words like schlep, glitch, kvetch, chutzpah. klutz, schtick or maven, you are speaking Yiddish?
What is Yiddish?
A blend of German, Slavic, and Hebrew, Yiddish was the everyday language of Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe...
What is Yiddish?
A blend of German, Slavic, and Hebrew, Yiddish was the everyday language of Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe...
10 years ago:
School board members from Stamford, Readsboro, and Halifax, joined by Rep. Laura Sibilia, created a study committee to explore consolidation options under Act 46 or an earlier consolidation law, Act 153. They pondered whether they could meet the requirements...
School board members from Stamford, Readsboro, and Halifax, joined by Rep. Laura Sibilia, created a study committee to explore consolidation options under Act 46 or an earlier consolidation law, Act 153. They pondered whether they could meet the requirements...
10 years ago:
House Education Committee Chair Rep. David Sharpe, of Bristol, held an informational meeting with area school board members and voters in Marlboro to explain Act 46. The law required the consolidation of school districts, which was intended to provide more...
House Education Committee Chair Rep. David Sharpe, of Bristol, held an informational meeting with area school board members and voters in Marlboro to explain Act 46. The law required the consolidation of school districts, which was intended to provide more...
Brandon Collins, a medium, will host a group reading at the Kitzhof on Wednesday, October 22. Photo by Derek Desranleau.
DOVER - Vermont native and medium Brandon Collins will be at the Kitzhof on the evening of Wednesday, October 22, for a group reading. The event is part of what’s become an annual October tradition at the Kitzhof, which for the past three years has hosted spiritually-inclined programming around...
The cover of “Small Town School” by Dave Larson. Photo courtesy of Dave Larson
WILMINGTON- “Small Town School,” a new book by former Wilmington teacher Dave Larsen, examines the 100-plus-year history of Wilmington Central High School.
Bartleby’s Books will host a reading, discussion, and book signing with Larsen from 6 to 7 pm on Thursday, October 16. Copies of “...
Bartleby’s Books will host a reading, discussion, and book signing with Larsen from 6 to 7 pm on Thursday, October 16. Copies of “...
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