Al Barber, Fire Chief
I write this letter to you to express my dismay and frustration. I have had the absolute pleasure to know Al Barber I would estimate 45 years that I... ...
Our Vermont Community Schools: A Better Way?
February 22, 2021 Many Vermont towns are torn between the financial imperative to consolidate their shrinking student populations into larger nearby educational facilities and their deep desire to ...
Building a regional food supply system out of the pandemic
Opportunities lurk in every downturn. To recover and move forward, we must do more than scramble back to the past, we must ferret out and explore better and more secure ways to live and thrive. ...
Barn Talk
A curious offhand comment I heard upon first visiting Hinesburg in 1976 alluded to something called “barn talk,” a time that coincides with the first meeting of my future father-in-law, Howard H. ...
Brave new world
The pandemic we’re muddling through confronts each of us both with life-threatening risk and prospective opportunities for renewal. ...