Residents and visitors to Rutland may have noticed “Rutland Art Ramble” signs on windows along the downtown streets of our familiar city beginning in August. These signs point to art exhibitions designed to enliven, challenge and entertain. Those exhibitions ran through September. October la…

I have known Matt Prouty for a number of years and was disturbed by the attack on him. Matt is devoted to his family, so holding a sign in support of his wife is quite appropriate.

A person means well when he or she says, "You're an inspiration for me!" Though, the reality is, if someone is looking for another for inspiration, this type of belief is not being "adult." This goes for minors, as well. People need to be their own inspiration, hero, whatever description is …

In a State of Vermont Police Academy class on eyewitness identification, students are tasked with scoring a fast-moving basketball game for a certain time.

Does anyone feel this trembling sense of foreboding about what is ahead for the political health of our nation?

I have a message for those Rutland Herald readers and others who are planning to vote for Donald Trump on Nov. 3: Please don’t.

A friend of mine went to Price Chopper a few days ago. When it was time to check out, she found herself in a hazardous situation. The man in front of her in line wore no mask. The woman checking out in front of him wore her mask around her neck. Both customers were presenting a hazard to the…

A home violated

Robert grew up in Harlem, New York. Born about 1944, I met him at my first job in Springfield, Massachusetts, at the wastewater plant in 1984. His twin sons were 16 years old at the time. He told me while growing up he listened to classical music and studied hard in school. After graduating …

I wish I had written the following but I didn’t. It came from the Sept. 1 New York Times Editorial Board and deals with the state of our nation under Donald Trump in the wake of his "debate" with Democratic candidate, Joe Biden. The Times said:

With all the divisive rhetoric about what flags to fly, there should be one non-controversial solution: just fly the U.S. flag. Consider all the flags in contention: POW/MIA, Black Lives and Gay Pride. Last month, a letter to the editor mentioned two more: suicide prevention and abortion rig…

I get (every month) the equivalent of what Donald J. Trump (it's been said) paid in taxes. I worked all my life, from the age of 16, and l told every boss, "Withhold what the max is."

How serious Joe Biden is about actually being U.S. president is still a mystery. Yes, he did well at the debate with Trump and he looked presidential and allowing for a few gaffes and misstatements, he won the barroom brawl "debate."

I am planning to vote former-Vice President Joe Biden for president, but if he agrees to debate the idiot president again, I will not.

We are voting "yes" on Article 1 this November, to support the purchase of the former CSJ athletic complex and the filling of a need for a Community Center in our city.

Having just received my “Vote by Mail" package today, and going through the instructions carefully, some questions arose. If anyone knows the answer to any of these, please post in your local paper, or perhaps call in to your local radio or TV station. It is easy to imagine that others have …

On behalf of the Castleton Community Center members and its board of directors, I would like to express our sincere gratitude to the many individuals and businesses that helped make our 16th annual Castleton Community Center Golf Outing a success. Proceeds from the Golf Outing support our el…

My mother and I had a rocky relationship. But I’ll never forget the time she stepped in front of a speeding sports car that was headed right for us in the dead of night. After the sports car veered off, and I had a chance to realize what had just happened, I asked my mother why she would do …

The commentary by F. Adams begins by denouncing the decision by Project VISION to publicly support Tabitha Moore. Ms. Moore has recently decided to move from Wallingford because of harassment and threats relating to her anti-racism work.

The grand jury in the Breonna Taylor case decided the policeman who negligently shot several bullets through the white walls of an apartment, endangering nonthreatening humanity within those white walls, should be charged with negligence.

Clarendon is evidently not OK with "Black Lives Matter" flags at Mill River.

Reading the editorial page of the Herald reminds me why I subscribe to this paper. The diverse op-eds and letters — from Ray Peterson and Christine Smith to Norman Cohen and Art Krueger, and many others — give a sense of what this community is thinking in these troubled times.

I recently had the honor of representing Vermont and meeting virtually with federal lawmakers to ask that they make cancer a national priority. I did this as a volunteer for American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.

You know what I don’t like? Vermonters who celebrate “Six Months and a Day.” Those who clearly have plenty of money to own a second home in usually some warm but god-forsaken southern state to avoid paying taxes here in Vermont.

A Sept. 24 New York Times article addressed President Trump's questioning the legitimacy of the upcoming election and the peaceful transfer of power should he lose. The newspaper requested comments from the nation's 26 Republican governors. Only one responded, and it was not Vermont's.

The Friends of the Fair Haven Free Library would like to thank the community for taking part in our Grab and Go Bookcase project over the course of the past five months.

In a truly great country, all people would feel safe and unafraid in their homes. Evidently, we are not quite great yet.

It has become clear to me that I can't be elected to serve as representative for our district of Cavendish and Weathersfield.

To people who park in handicapped parking spots and shouldn't — then place their shopping carts in this particular spot: You know that's being ignorant, correct?

Donald Trump thinks that the federal government should be run as a business; that its purpose is to facilitate making money. He has stripped federal departments of funding, reversed regulations and reduced taxes for the wealthy, to his own financial benefit and for major corporations.

McConnell, Trump and William Barr: Triumvirate is what they are. Unlawful governance (so dark) is how they choose to leave their mark (like boys who write their names in snow). This loathsome threesome has to go.

Progressives should overwhelmingly support Joe Biden for president for two reasons:

I respect Project VISION for attempting to take a stance on racism in our community but feel it was a safe response. Project VISION grew because of a dangerous crisis — the opioid epidemic — in our community. People wanted change, came together to make it happen, and this effort grew into Pr…

I am not convinced that electric cars and solar panels will reverse our climate change problems.

Thank you to Sens. Hooker and McNeil and Reps. Howard, Jerome, Potter and Chesnut-Tangerman, who supported the Vermont Global Warming Solutions Act.

My opponent for Rutland Town’s House of Representatives seat doth protest too much. He missed the point regarding my concerns over the abrupt closure of Thomas Dairy, a 99-year-old Rutland Town family business that employed 30 people.

No one should have to live in their home in fear. No one should have to leave their home in fear. Home is a physical space, but it also should be the place where we go for respite and shelter, to replenish ourselves from the onslaught of life in the outside world.

After watching this Chuck E. Cheese commercial with children wearing masks, a woman as a voice-over chimes that "kids can get back to being kids." Come on, really? I'll believe it when they can remove the masks permanently.

For all the struggles that went into reopening schools this summer, Nature did smile on Vermont's teachers and learners this week as our kids returned to school: conditions have been perfect for outdoor activity. Going in circles around my hay fields, I had a lot of time to think and feel a …

I have to agree with Butch Paul on the "Raider" name. Has the Rutland School Board looked into a dictionary for the definition of a raider?

"When we get into April,” we were told, “in warmer weather, it will disappear.” This lie is old (by more than half a year), and soon the weather will be freezing cold.

All lives matter — except George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Daniel Prude, Jacob Blake and countless others. And it seems here in our little state, all lives matter except Kiah Morris and now Tabitha Moore.

I think most of us are furious at our leadership, especially as obfuscation seems ready to kill as many Americans as World War II did. But I am most disturbed for our children, who see the president cultivating hatred with nasty bigotry, unseemly language, urging illegal actions and the unbe…

A president deliberately lied to the nation he is legally and morally bound to defend, about a national health crisis. The lies induced many people to take unnecessary risks that have cost lives. We will never know precisely how many lives were unnecessarily lost, which doesn’t at all dimini…

When was the last time you thought about "Indian?" When you thought about what you wanted for dinner last night? Oh, wrong Indian. For me, it's the misogynistic (think squaw) stereotype.

I hope Gov. Scott will veto the Global Warming Solutions Act, which appears to be a well-intentioned but empty and impractical response to the very real problem of climate change.

As I read Danziger’s explanation of the intent of his “Uncle Tim’s Cabin” cartoon, I could not get beyond my curiosity: Is Jeff Danziger a white guy from Vermont who expresses criticism of accomplished Blacks who are not liberal, but would vote for those who would put in place barriers to in…

For the last two decades, every other legislative session has given birth to a “reform Act 250” bill. The current bill to gut Act 250 is H.926. It is not that Act 250 needs “reform.” It is just that the developers want to make more money and the easiest way to get it is to gut environmental …

Thank you to the Rutland Recreation Department, Kim Peters and staff.

Fed up with spreading discontent, the people take a stand. At night, in fright, they congregate in towns across the land to demonstrate against the hate all autocrats demand.