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Buy local, eat local
More than 1,500 miles … That’s the average distance most food travels from where it’s harvested, slaughtered or manufactured to reach the average kitchen in the United States. Even here in Vermont...
May 16, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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A difference of perspective
The Vermont Legislature appears headed toward the end of its 2013 session. The final gavel could fall as early as Saturday, or sometime next week, but in any event the finish line is in sight. Wh...
May 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Frustration about funding
Rep. Ann Manwaring’s recent update from the Statehouse in Montpelier, on page 5, sheds some interesting light on how our Legislature works, or in this case, doesn’t. In talking about changes to ed...
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Plans just part of the puzzle
Community leaders and business people around the region have been meeting this week to offer input on a comprehensive economic development strategy plan. The idea is to develop a document that can ...
Apr 25, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Town not ready for a fight
One of the great things about life in a small town is that residents often feel invested in every aspect of the community. Much of that comes from knowing just about everyone, and the feeling that...
Apr 18, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Doyle poll offers insights
One of the great traditions of one of Vermont’s greatest traditions is the annual Town Meeting Day Survey. The poll, conducted since 1969 by Washington County Sen. Bill Doyle, is one of the state’...
Apr 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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2013 Town Meeting Day Survey
Apr 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Sen. Bill Doyle's annual poll of Vermonters at Town Meeting.
No need to fear change
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Nobody likes the idea of uncertainty, especially when it comes to emergency services. That probably explains why the pending dissolution of the Whitingham Ambulance Service is a difficult proposit...
Not your grandparents’ health care system now
Mar 28, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
For the uninitiated, this week’s information meeting on the future of health care in the Deerfield Valley and southern Vermont was a real eye opener. (See article on page 1.) There are big changes ...
Not the sweetest of seasons
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
It’s maple festival weekend, but in some ways it sure doesn’t seem like sugarin’ season. With another foot or more of snow blanketing the region, the weather is more like early February than late M...
Voters not ready to spend
Mar 14, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
At last week’s Town Meeting, voters in Whitingham were not in a spending mood, cutting more than $1 million in proposed spending from the proposed budget for fiscal year 2013-2014. Most of the cut...
Meetings done, work begins
Mar 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Town Meeting has come and gone for 2013. Looking back at Tuesday, it’s safe to say there were a few surprises, as is always the case. School budgets passed with little or no rancor, some even ha...