Letters to the Editor
To the editor: On behalf of Brattleboro housing providers, I wish to extend a huge amount of gratitude to the voters of Brattleboro for defeating Article 2 on the March 7 ballot. Thank you so very much,
To the editor: As a resident I am firmly against hunting moose.
To the editor: After reading Dan Jeffries letter to the editor in the March 8 Reformer, I want to share our experience with our Mitsubishi cold climate heat pump, which has been quite different from what Mr. Jeffries reported. Perhaps he does not have a heat pump designed for Vermont weather.
To the editor: The Vermont Council on Rural Development is grateful to have had the opportunity to meet and learn from residents in Putney as part of a community process that identifies priorities for the future over the past several months.
To the editor: The Willow project would double the amount of emissions that President Biden promised to reduce, making null any efforts by this administration to combat the climate crisis.
Letters to the editor
To the editor: The Jan. 17 article "Property managers oppose just-cause eviction proposal” frames the basic human need of housing as a busines…
To the editor: Dear friends and neighbors, thank you for your support of the recent Project Feed the Thousands campaign. The Guilford Cares Food Pantry is a beneficiary of this wonderful program and received a very generous gift that will help us continue to serve those in our community in n…
Note: The following letter was sent to the Brattleboro Select Board about the tentative decision to fund the salaries of the three new firefighter positions with ARPA funds.
To the editor: Commercial fishing in our public waters, is it hurting our fisheries? Are we eating fish that are sold from waters that are from no keep fish zones because of poisons like PCBs and other chemicals?
To the editor: Having inherited dozens of problems unaddressed by predecessors, Alyssa Harlow stepped into Rockingham’s Finance Office a year ago facing serious challenges. She has distinguished herself not only in solving those problems but also in developing effective new systems and proce…
Columnists
Governor Scott appointed a new Fish & Wildlife Board member, and he fits in perfectly with the current Board. I mean, most of the Board looks the same and sounds the same — it certainly doesn’t represent 21st-century Vermont. Scott is definitely bucking pleas for diversity and inclusion …
I wholeheartedly agree with those Vermont educators who support legislation that would guarantee a full-semester, stand-alone personal finance course as a graduation requirement for Vermont students (“Teachers: Students need to learn financial literacy,” Reformer, March 16).
To the editor: Vermont's child protection system is in real trouble, as demonstrated in a recent study by the Vermont Parent Representation Center. The problems have only gotten worse in the last five years. A bizarre system in which the Department for Children and Families (DCF) uses one st…
The Republican Party’s radical wing is attempting to suppress woke culture as part of their larger campaign to destroy democracy in our country. Using “woke” in pejorative terms to undermine Black and liberal ideals, the effort is particularly aimed at people of color.
Before I retired as an attorney, I had been professionally involved in all sides of the child protection system: I represented children and parents, ran a child protection agency, and advocated for changes in the system to better serve children and families. I believe that the state has an i…
Columnists
Vermonters, we have a housing emergency, and it will reach crisis proportions this summer. If that sounds alarmist, it only hints at how alarm…
Vermonters, we have a housing emergency, and it will reach crisis proportions this summer. If that sounds alarmist, it only hints at how alarming it will be for Vermonters experiencing homelessness and the cities, towns and villages of Vermont that will need to respond to people without shel…
When Vermont faces an acute crisis – floods, pandemics, national security events – our first thought is often: “Call out the Guard.” With a phone call from the Governor, the women and men of the Vermont National Guard drop everything to help our beloved state in its time of greatest need. Fr…
I got called an alpha male! OK, not sure what to do with that. I’m a man that speaks directly and who expects to be spoken directly to, I won’t back down from a just and righteous cause or argument, and I certainly won’t stand for people hijacking and controlling a narrative while spreading lies.
“Well, I tried, there’s nothing more to do.”
Editorials
There seems to be no end in sight to the alarming stories about the mental health crisis our country is facing. The problem has become so pervasive and so universal that mental health issues are cropping up everywhere — in schools, the workplace, courtrooms and hospital emergency rooms.
This past fall the nation’s full attention was on the congressional elections and how the outcome would shape our political landscape and national policies for years to come. We hope next month’s local elections and town meetings get equal attention from Vermont voters as they make decisions…
All weekend, the news cycle continued to overwhelm us with apt outrage over Tyre Nichols’ fatal encounter with police officers in Memphis, Tennessee.
Vermont lawmakers will take a deep dive into many thorny issues this session, including how to expand and improve affordable child care, crack down on substance abuse and the crime it attracts, increase affordable housing for young, working families, and more.
This whole issue of the just-cause eviction proposal in Brattleboro is a tough one to navigate. It seems to be pitting landlords against tenants in the proverbial battle of the haves versus the have-nots. The effort isn’t new in Vermont, and neither is its fans or detractors. Gov. Phil Scott…
Editorials
Vermont lawmakers will take a deep dive into many thorny issues this session, including how to expand and improve affordable child care, crack…
Across Southern Vermont, we join our neighbors around the globe in lighting candles, saying prayers, sharing special food with our families, neighbors and communities, exchanging gifts, singing carols or listening to traditional music that honors our chosen worship or nonreligious quiet refl…
Everyone is grumbling these days when they go to the gas station or grocery store as inflation continues to wreak havoc on American wallets.
While we appreciate the Scott administration’s proposal to alleviate some of stress that working families face in times of dire need, we feel that to be truly effective, Vermont has to take bolder steps. Holding back through the years has cost the state talented workers, new families and tax…
Statistics show that fall is the most common time of year for home fires, with 45 percent of residential fires taking place during this three month period. We’ve seen that trend play out right here in Southern Vermont these last several weeks, with tragic results.
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As a Vermont resident, do you enjoy the opportunity to observe a majestic bobcat or a playful river otter in the wild? Have you ever had the chance to watch a beaver family, led by a mother and father who mate for life, busily build their family’s lodge?
I attended the beginning of the most recent Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board meeting online. The meeting is held in Berlin and goes on for four hours. Anyone can share a public comment at the beginning of the meeting and you are allotted two minutes.
To the editor: Having inherited dozens of problems unaddressed by predecessors, Alyssa Harlow stepped into Rockingham’s Finance Office a year ago facing serious challenges. She has distinguished herself not only in solving those problems but also in developing effective new systems and proce…
A person has to be prepared and adaptable to deal with winter in Vermont. Depending upon where you live, some of the essentials are a wood stove and a generator, the wood stove being the most important. If you can keep the interior of your home from freezing you’ll still have water and the p…
To the editor: The streets in Brattleboro are in need of repaving. I think everyone realizes that, but year after year, we continue to see the road conditions get worse. I understand the toll the seasons take on the streets. Has the Select Board contacted our federal elected officials to see…
To the editor: In an effort to help Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting members better represent their constituents in District 3, there will be a public forum for District 3 residents at 3 pm on Sunday, March 19, in the Parlor of the Centre Congregational Church, 193 Main Street. This c…
To the editor: I want to thank the incredible staff at Pine Heights at Brattleboro Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation, for all their dedicated and hard work during these waning COVID times. I want you to know that your dedication and compassion go a long way in keeping both residents an…
To the editor: A century ago Congress was getting set to pass a very restrictive immigration act. It was designed to allow immigration only from Northern Europe. Too many Italians, Irish, Eastern Europeans, Jews, Chinese, Japanese, Greeks and other “newcomers” had arrived in the US.
To the editor: The bureaucrats running the new Vermont State University plan to get rid of books in their libraries to save money. These people would get rid of nurses in a hospital!
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