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10 years ago:
The Deerfield Valley News profiled Pat “Tuffy” Bakaitis, owner of Hoosick Sand & Gravel. Bakaitis was well known for his work on “Building Wild,” a National Geographic Channel program. Examples of Bakaitis’ work on the show included a cabin in Dover that was...
10 years ago:
Wilmington’s economic development department sponsored a business consultant to assist businesses in tackling their most critical challenges. The two-hour sessions with nationally-acclaimed business consultant Margie Johnson were funded through the town’s 1...
Wilmington’s economic development department sponsored a business consultant to assist businesses in tackling their most critical challenges. The two-hour sessions with nationally-acclaimed business consultant Margie Johnson were funded through the town’s 1...
he Williamsville covered bridge in South Newfane. Photo courtesy Vermont Covered Bridge Society
10 years ago:
Vermont Secretary of Education Rebrecca Holcombe met in Dover with school board members from around southern Vermont to discuss the need for education reforms. Holcombe highlighted issues including rising poverty levels, homeless students, an increasing...
Vermont Secretary of Education Rebrecca Holcombe met in Dover with school board members from around southern Vermont to discuss the need for education reforms. Holcombe highlighted issues including rising poverty levels, homeless students, an increasing...
Wardsboro voters turned down a proposed school budget 25 years ago. File photo
10 years ago:
The Vermont Senate approved a bill that would provide incentives for school districts to consolidate, to create K-12 districts with a minimum of 900 students. The merged schools would also qualify for a merger support grant, intended to replace the state’s...
The Vermont Senate approved a bill that would provide incentives for school districts to consolidate, to create K-12 districts with a minimum of 900 students. The merged schools would also qualify for a merger support grant, intended to replace the state’s...
Claudette Hollenbeck
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...
With so much time on my hands, I do a lot of thinking on these gray, gloomy early spring days. I am...
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...
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