To the editor:This week a circular went to Greensboro voters entitled “Your Vote Matters,” asking whether the Town Hall should be sold and replaced with an apartment complex.The circular makes persuasive arguments, but it gives no indication from whom it comes. Presumably the source is a committee of citizens opposed[Read More…]
Letters to the Editor
Even More Troubling
To the editor: The Greensboro Select Board’s decision to move forward with the current Purchase and Sale Agreement (PSA) with Rural Edge raises serious concerns. The agreement shifts nearly all risk onto the town while giving Rural Edge broad flexibility and few concrete obligations. It grants the developer an open-ended[Read More…]
Questions on Nature Conservancy Salaries
To the editor: $250,976 salary for a one hour work week sounds great if you’re getting it. Not so great if you’re a taxpayer helping (sic) supply the money. Who is this person and who does she work (sic) for? According to the last tax return I received from the[Read More…]
Swift, Appropriate Action
To the editor: I serve as President for two volunteer-led nonprofit organizations; the Northeast Kingdom Arts Council (NEKarts), which stewards the historic Hardwick Town House and the Hardwick Downtown Partnership, which supports the economic and cultural vitality of downtown Hardwick. Both are 501(c)(3) organizations sustained through community fundraising and municipal[Read More…]
Y’all Got Me Good
To the editor: Thank you so much to the staff and authors for your April 1 edition. At the end of winter in Vermont we needed the laugh. J.L. in a website comment Great fun and thanks for getting my quote correct!!! S.A., Greensboro As a summer resident of Ashenhurst[Read More…]
Rally for Veteran Benefits
To the editor: Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is proposing to cut 80,000 jobs from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This cannot help but affect the care that our veterans receive when attempting to access and benefit from their VA benefits. Positions have already been[Read More…]
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
To the Editor: I would like to address my dearest friends, neighbors and allies in Canada. I am writing in the hopes you will consider taking on Vermont as your 11th Province. If not as a Province, perhaps a territory. We have enjoyed so much freedom, support and genuine caring[Read More…]
Remarks at Town Meeting
To the editor: I have attached a transcript of my remarks, accepting a nomination to the Greensboro Select Board, March 4. “Thank you, I really appreciate your support and your confidence in me. First, a word about the professional experience that I would bring to this role: I received an[Read More…]
Veterans Wanted
To the editor: As American Legion Post 7 in Hardwick prepares for the nomination of officers at our next meeting on Thursday, March 20, at 7 p.m., (more on that in a moment), we would like to invite all veterans who have served at any time since December 7, 1941,[Read More…]
USAID Dismemberment Misguided
To the editor: As a retired (2010) employee of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), I am deeply disappointed in the Trump Administration actions to dismember USAID. Such actions reflect a willful disregard of the positive role performed by foreign aid in U.S. relations with most of the rest[Read More…]
Nothing Good to Say
To the editor: I have nothing good to say about the Vance/Trump “made-for-tv-performance” in the White House last Friday, so best not to say anything at all. If you can, please show support for the country of Ukraine and its leader, President Volodymyr Zelensky, who during the brief White House[Read More…]
Let’s Call it What it is
To the editor:For the past few weeks, since Jan. 20, to be exact, “DOGE” is the word that captures the attention of the printed and broadcast press, and the public. But how best to declare the meaning and pronunciation of this amalgamation of letters? (Lexicographers, please take note.)It certainly is[Read More…]
