The Vermont Symphony Orchestra, in conjunction with tonight’s performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, “Titan,” is ...

Johan Sebastian Bach’s “Süsser Trost, mein Jesus kömmt.” It’s appropriate that Capital City Concerts is opening — and closing ...

In recent years, there has been a push to reduce lawn and to substitute native trees, shrubs and perennials that support ...

Judy Collins has had so much life packed into years it doesn’t all fit in her songs. It spills over into pages of poetry, and ...

Dogwoods, in the genus Cornus, are among the most versatile native shrubs. With seasonal interest, tolerance of less than ...

Viral hepatitis is a leading cause of liver disease, liver cancer and liver transplant in the United States and is a focus of an annual national awareness campaign that occurs ...

Nobody wins unless someone else loses. Winning is the result of defeating adversaries, so power is essential. “Might makes right.” There ...

Of all the numbskull, hammer-headed, misguided, ham-handed, tin-eared ideas floated by our current president (and there have been many, by my count), the one about annexing Canada as a 51st ...

As a childless woman often stereotyped by certain politicians as preferring felines over babies, I find myself utterly captivated by mothers in all their diverse forms, even those labeled “bad.” ...

As the days get longer and the sun warms the forest floor, hepatica flowers start emerging. These charming early bloomers captivated the writer and naturalist John Burroughs, who extolled their ...

While none of us in the newsroom has been asked to give a commencement address to seniors graduating from Vermont’s colleges and universities, we took it upon ourselves ...

German pastor and theologian Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) famously said something that goes like this: “First they came for the communists, and I wasn’t one, so I didn’t speak out; then ...