Letter to the editor: Widow grateful to community

This is a thank you to everyone in the Middlebury community who helped pick up, support and wait patiently as my husband shuffled through the stores and parking lots, occasionally fell down or struggled to remain upright.

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church — on the green in Middlebury — would like the community to know that we offer a variety of spaces to nonprofits at no charge.

Many, many Vermonters struggled for days without power beginning the night of April 3 … And the crews from Green Mountain Power Company (our provider here in Goshen) worked tirelessly and cheerfully until we all had our power back before the end of that w … (read more)

The impending 17 percent increase in property taxes has our elected leaders on the political edge, thinking they are about to be tarred by the taxpayers’ brush and that doing something, anything, would be better than doing nothing. They are wrong.

It is difficult for me to understand why anyone would vote for a man who was impeached twice, convicted of tax fraud and sexual abuse, disrespects veterans, and admires Adolf Hitler.

There’s a plan coming into focus, the evidence of which is found in his words, blunt, as well as implied. Donald’s threat of violence, a natural precursor to the actual thing, will boost his re-election odds.

“If the American public saw pictures and videos of a one year old baby with ten pieces of shrapnel in their one year old forehead and face or if they saw a twelve year old with no limbs and burnt like an ignored hot dog on the grill, they would open their … (read more)

I disagree with April 11th’s editorial suggesting that school budgets were voted down because they were presented to voters too late.

As voters within MAUSD learned this past week, defeating such budgets have real consequences: The school district sent out 17 RIF (reduction in force) notices to teachers, many within the school’s art department in preparation for what administrators call … (read more)

In my decades of work with disadvantaged Vermonters, I have seen assistance programs come and go, and funding commitments rise and fall, dependent on the economy, political administrations, and government priorities.

This Easter, feeling so sad about the ways of the world as well as recent personal losses, we skipped our usual family Easter. Instead, we walked across the Lake Champlain Bridge at Chimney Point on that sunny blustery day.

While conservation and efficiency are important components of an overall strategy to get to our GHG reduction goal, we can’t get to an 80% reduction by conservation and efficiency alone.

Wherever you were in the path of the total eclipse this past Monday at quarter past three in the afternoon, the world seemingly stood still for a moment or two, and the vibe was noticeably different.

One third of towns not passing school budgets this year is indicative of real obstacles facing Vermont. I, too, feel the pressure of mounting school costs compounded by the rising costs to live in our state.

I am a concerned voter in Addison County. I believe that all citizens who are 18 or over should have the right to vote and I am doing all I can to help in that effort.