Ripton Community Coffee House to host its final show

Richard Ruane and Andrea Chesman took a moment last week to harken back to the early 1990s, a time before the Town Hall Theater and the Vergennes Opera House, when live entertainment in Addison County largely consisted of sporadic seasonal concerts — such as Middlebury’s Festival on the Green.

At a recent Meet and Greet with Wendy Harlin, who is running against Peter Conlon in the Democratic primary for a seat in the House, I was struck by Wendy’s grasp of a number of wide-ranging issues from education (yes, keeping small schools open) to the e … (read more)

Regarding the closure of small schools: It appears as though closing small schools and cutting teacher positions will greatly impact our elementary school students by increasing class sizes and increasing commuting times. Are there any benefits? The distr … (read more)