Slideshow: Spooktacular 2014

Happy Halloween! News editor John McCright snapped these photos of this year’s Spooktacular in Middlebury. Created with flickr slideshow. Share this...

Opinion: Mind the gap in education

Last month, I wrote about the need for leadership on the educational issues facing Vermont, to address the great divide that exists on many of our most critical decisions. There are growing signs on every level of our educational systems that we must move forward and...

Community Forum: Nurses vie for more protections

This week’s writer is Lincoln resident Mari Cordes, president of the Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals. She has been a nurse for almost 27 years, most of that at Fletcher Allen Health Care. She was most recently the nurse educator for the FAHC...

Opinion: Fisher, Sharpe deserve re-election

My husband and I retired to Vermont in July ’06. We first met Mike Fisher and Dave Sharpe the following March at the Starksboro Town Meeting. Since then we’ve gotten to know both men better. We find them to be thoughtful, fair and honest men, who care about their...