Editorial Note: A Call-to-Action Parking Conference at the State House, March 12
As part of a general call for action, the Vermont State Employees Association (VSEA) has announced a broad-based parking conference set for Tuesday, March 12, from noon to 1 p.m, in the House Chamber...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: A Welcome to Asiana House
Sandra and Gary Ma have just opened Asiana, a new restaurant in Montpelier located in the former Chittenden Bank building at the corner of State and Elm streets. Anyone who remembers the bank will...
View ArticleEditorial Note: Two Upcoming Meetings About Sabin’s Pasture
For a number of years, there has been strong community interest in Sabin’s pasture. Is it advisable to zone part of the pasture for housing? Or should it be kept as open space and zoned for recreation?...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Completing Our Campaign and Planning a Dinner
Here at The Bridge, we are continuing to receive contributions that are taking us toward our annual campaign goal of $15,000. At the moment, our total donations stand at $11,900. Here’s our plan to...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: A Note About the March 11 Public Meeting on Tasers
According to a March 4 press release, the office of Vermont attorney General Bill Sorrell will be hosting a public forum “to evaluate Vermont law enforcement’s use of tasers.” That meeting is set for...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Berlin Pond: Seeking Stories, Opinions, Photographs
I am currently working on a story about Berlin Pond for The Bridge, studying documents and talking to a range of people. The longer I work on this story—the more people I talk to, the more I read—the...
View ArticleHelp Wanted: Graphic Designer
The Bridge is looking someone with strong graphic design and computer skills to work as our graphic designer. This person will be in charge of assembling the entire paper, start to finish, including...
View ArticleEditorial Note: Second Community Meeting on Sabin’s Pasture
The Montpelier Planning Commission will be holding the second of its current round of community meetings to share the commission’s proposed Sabin’s Pasture map and zoning ordinances and to invite...
View ArticleEditorial Note: Join Us at a Community Dinner
The Bridge invites you to join us at what more and more looks like an awesome community dinner with great food, live music by Nancy and Lily Smith and a chance to meet almost everyone who works at The...
View ArticleOPINION: Level the Playing Field: Support Election Reform
by Emily Peyton We need reform of the election process. Elections are public affairs, yet today, our election process has been privatized. Private organizations and corporations assert an ill-founded...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Annual Campaign Update
As we go to press, recent contributions have taken our annual campaign to $13,548. Our campaign goal is $15,000. This means that $1,452 separate us from completing the campaign successfully. To...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Grappling with Glut
First, I feel the need to establish my sustainability cred. I’ve long been a dropout from the system. As a teenager I was inspired and enamored by Walt Whitman, Thoreau and Helen and Scott Nearing. At...
View ArticleEditorial Note: Annual Campaign Update: Again, Thanks
As this issue of The Bridge goes to press, recent contributions to the paper’s annual campaign take us to a current campaign total of $14,033 toward a campaign goal of $15,000. Writing on behalf of...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Our Community Dinner and Afterward
If you announce a community dinner for Thursday evening, April 11, and bring in food, and if the food is good and there’s enough of it, and if you lay the tables for 80 people and 80 people turn out,...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Montpelier’s April Celebration of Poetry
From day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute, spring in our mountains can raise our spirits or almost break our hearts. Or as T. S. Eliot advises us in his memorable 1922 poem “The Waste Land”:...
View ArticleEditorial 5.2.13
An Answer to Confusion Turn on the radio, watch TV, read a newspaper, go online. Sometimes it almost looks like the world-at-large and America itself is coming apart, imploding from the weapons and...
View ArticleBiking: A Joyful Imperative
Here, now and in the immediate future – the current wave of enthusiasm for bicycles and bike transportation has all the feeling of something increasingly solid and enduring. Bikes for recreational...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: The Granite City in History
As we fasten our attention on the city of Barre in this issue, we are mostly discussing things that are current—the near past, the immediate present and the near future. But as we focus on things...
View ArticleThe Fathers
So many have vanished maddened by mustard gas shot on Saipan Others died under a big timber on a mountain, behind a desk drowned in rivers, bottles Some preferred islands and boats or the curve of a...
View ArticleKen Russell Replies
Sometimes, we choose to present competing narratives around a given issue. To probe assertions made does sometimes exceed our capacities and space available in a given paper. It was difficult, in a...
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