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Recent college graduate

HARTFORD, CT - William Frank, of South Londonderry, VT, has received the degree of bachelor of arts from the University of Hartford’s College of Arts and Sciences.
William is one of 964 students who received graduate and undergraduate degrees this spring as part of the class of 2024.

Lighting and shooting plants, such as these hop vines reaching for the sky, from different angles can make a big difference in how well photos turn out. Deborah J. Benoit

Lighting and shooting plants, such as these hop vines reaching for the sky, from different angles can make a big difference in how well photos turn out. Deborah J. Benoit

How to capture high quality images of a garden

By Deborah J. Benoit
Extension Master
Gardener
University of Vermont
VERMONT - As much as one might wish that May lilacs or June peonies would last forever, they’re fleeting pleasures. One of the best ways to preserve those wonderful moments and...

This Week in History June 27 - July 3

10 years ago:
Dover teenager Stacy Blackadar and her Brattleboro Union High School classmate Shannakay Nichols, of Brattleboro, were the driving force behind legislation ensuring parental rights for victims of sexual assault. Until their legislation was passed and signed...

Close up of peach leaf curl disease showing thickened, distorted pinkish leaves.
Cathie Creed

Close up of peach leaf curl disease showing thickened, distorted pinkish leaves. Cathie Creed

Funky fruit fungus and how to fight it

By Ann Hazelrigg
UVM Extention
Plant Pathologist
VERMONT - Peach leaf curl has been a common disease of peach trees this spring in Vermont. The disease often occurs in wet cool springs following mild winters.
The fungus (Taphrina deformans) causes...

Recycling helps everyone

BRATTLEBORO - Windham Solid Waste Management District (WSWMD) and Putney Road Redemption Center (PRRC) announced that over the last year 120,000 returnable cans and bottles were collected at WSWMD’S Brattleboro transfer station on Old Ferry Road and redeemed at PRRC. The reduction in weight of...

Clean water webinars

VERMONT - The Clean Water Initiative Program (CWIP) at the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has announced the rest of the lineup for the 2024 Clean Water Conversation Series. These monthly webinars are free and open to the public. The series spotlights the collaborative endeavors of...

Claudette Hollenbeck

Aging in Place: A hallmark of aging is being able to safeguard one’s stamina

One morning at seven-ish, as I groggily ushered the dog toward the elevator for her morning pit stop outside, I heard a deep, throaty chuckle behind me and turned to see a lovely woman who lives down the hall and very rarely speaks. Her reaction to the sight of the dog frisking along was not at...

One-minute Book Reviews: Another take on Huckleberry Finn

“James”
Percival Everett
Doubleday, 2024. Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” has had many adventures of its own. Praised in the mid-twentieth century by the critic Lionel Trilling as “one of the world’s great books and one of the central documents of American...

This Week in History: June 20 - 27

10 years ago:
While the last class of seniors to graduate from Twin Valley High School’s Wilmington facility received their diplomas, work was set to begin on a major renovation and reconstruction project at Whitingham School. The project would transform the building,...

Rep. Tristan Roberts

Legislative Update: To “Very upset citizen”: taxes may be lower

I voted on Monday to override Gov. Scott’s veto of H.887, the bill that sets tax rates to fund locally voted school budgets across Vermont. The bill attracted headlines, as well as the veto, because it results in a typical statewide property tax increase of 13.8%.
Don’t take headlines at...