Sunday, April 12, 2026
Opinion
It was during the snowstorms in January when my family managed to meet up for a birthday celebration in sunny California where the temperatures were in the 60s and 70s and the sky was beautifully blue every day. The winter respite was lovely but sobering as well, because I knew we were lucky to...
Edith Forbes, “The Lawnmower Lady: A Novel.” Rootstock Publications, 2026.
The Lawnmower Lady in Edith Forbes’s title is Fay Kirkwood, the 79-year-old owner of a Vermont pig farm that includes the small-engine repair shop she runs with her niece, Dryden. Fay dies in the book’s opening...
I might know more about my recent family and ancestors than most people, needing to research it all when I was training to be a family therapist. It astonishes me today how different were the lives of my two grandmothers from the current lives of my two granddaughters. I have lived through the...
Where is your home? Where are you most at home?
Distinguished Princeton professor and author Joyce Carol Oates once wrote “Home is the place you find yourself in your dreams.” In your life do you dream about mountain escapes? Do you sometimes imagine an early afternoon escape from work to...
Distinguished Princeton professor and author Joyce Carol Oates once wrote “Home is the place you find yourself in your dreams.” In your life do you dream about mountain escapes? Do you sometimes imagine an early afternoon escape from work to...
Aging in Place By Claudette Hollenbeck
What is going on? Why so much violence? Why so much anxiety and unrest? Clearly, our country is very unsettled right now. I wonder if it is yet another follow-up to the pandemic and all the social norms that were disrupted as a result of COVID?
Historians certainly have noted what World...
Historians certainly have noted what World...
To the Editor,
What qualities would I like to see in my state representative? A few would be integrity; transparency; willingness to vote by issue, not by party; and acumen with how both government and the private sector work. I see these qualities in Tristan Roberts, who is running for...
What qualities would I like to see in my state representative? A few would be integrity; transparency; willingness to vote by issue, not by party; and acumen with how both government and the private sector work. I see these qualities in Tristan Roberts, who is running for...
To the Editor,
Beware what you read. Voters in Vermont are being inundated by false information about Article 22. Here is what you need to know:
Article 22 has been in the works for four years now by Democrats in the Vermont House and Senate. It was started by lawmakers who foresaw...
Beware what you read. Voters in Vermont are being inundated by false information about Article 22. Here is what you need to know:
Article 22 has been in the works for four years now by Democrats in the Vermont House and Senate. It was started by lawmakers who foresaw...
To the Editor,
Politicians often like to pretend that there is only good and evil. This helps them give false choices to the public. This is happening today in Vermont’s Congressional election.
Candidate Becca Balint wanted money last week and she thought it a good fundraising...
Politicians often like to pretend that there is only good and evil. This helps them give false choices to the public. This is happening today in Vermont’s Congressional election.
Candidate Becca Balint wanted money last week and she thought it a good fundraising...
To the Editor,
Did you know that this midterm election, Vermont has 51 Republican candidates running? Did you know that eight of them were at the municipal center located in the village of Jacksonville on Monday, September 12, from 6 pm to almost 9:30 pm before some of them left. Five of...
Did you know that this midterm election, Vermont has 51 Republican candidates running? Did you know that eight of them were at the municipal center located in the village of Jacksonville on Monday, September 12, from 6 pm to almost 9:30 pm before some of them left. Five of...
There has been an unprecedented shift during the past 15 years in how news is distributed and consumed. That shift has been brought about the by the rapid expansion of high-speed internet access and the development of online platforms that have leveraged that access to grow their reach and...
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