If we distill the 1,000-plus word guest perspective (“Uncivil war breaks out on the South Burlington recreation path,” Oct. 26, 2023), the writer is effectively saying: “Dogs are untrustworthy, unpredictable and intimidate me, as do their owners. Disingenuous survey authors chose not to present an unbiased study, but instead intentionally slanted it toward their desired outcome. Ultimately, no off-leash area for dogs to socialize, play or exercise in South Burlington can be considered safe.”
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In response to the well-written guest perspective regarding unleashed dogs, “Uncivil war breaks out on the South Burlington Recreation Path (Oct. 26, 2023), I would add that larger dogs sometimes perceive small dogs as prey.
Thirty years ago, I spent four days in the small Baltic nation of Estonia, attending a liberty conference. In the Soviet era (1940-1991) communist apparatchiks appointed in Moscow ruled the three Baltic countries as sham Soviet republics. The enterprising Estonians were shackled, and by 1946 more than one-quarter of the population had been deported to a Siberian gulag, were executed or had fled the country.
Participants in high school sports and performing arts are under tremendous pressure these days, from parents, teachers, coaches and peers. Their days are consumed with school, sports and activities. They are trying to figure out who they are and who they want to be, all while having to compare themselves to everyone else on social media.
After 24 days on the road, we’re almost home. My wife, Alison, and I left home Oct. 7 to take a little drive out West to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary. We sort of had an idea of what to expect, but not really. Nothing could have prepared us for what we saw and the people that we met along the way.
As a high school senior, I understand the many challenges that being a girl in high school holds. Hard classes, first jobs, complex social dynamics and college applications. The stress of it all is hard enough without the added stress of periods.
We have heard about the proposed school improvements and would be excited to have our own middle school entrance and gym.
School athletic facility improvements matter more then you may think.
CEOs from major businesses in the U.S. demand that Harvard University release the names of students from 30 student organizations who signed a letter casting blame on Israel for the attacks by Hamas. The business leaders further urged the university to provide names of the signatories with photographs so that students who signed the letter would not be hired once they leave Harvard.
Situated cozily into Vermont’s northern mountains, the town of Stowe welcomes its annual influx of tourists — the leaf peepers. As autumn settles in and the branches on the trees begin to burst with hot oranges and flaming reds, visitors flood the small streets. Cars packed bumper to bumper line the sidewalks of Main Street.
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