Coach Does It All: Royals' Moreno Performs Balancing Act

South Royalton — As the South Royalton School athletic director and assistant principal, as well as father of three small children, Jeff Moreno was already a man of many hats before the start of basketball season. When Stretch Gillam stepped down on the day of the Royal boys’ …

VTC Nursing Candidates Invited to Join Honor Society

Randolph — More than 100 candidates in the associate degree in nursing program at Vermont Technical College have been invited to join the top honor society for associate degree nurses in the country. The college’s newly formed chapter of the Alpha Delta Nu Nursing Honor Society, founded by …

Letter: Armed and Dangerous

To the Editor: Anthony Stimson thinks that if more people carried guns, we would all be safer (“More Guns Equal More Safety,” Dec. 19). I disagree. The U.S. averages 30,000 gun deaths per year. This is about 85 deaths each day. Approximately 9,000 people are intentionally killed by …

• Letter: More Guns Equal More Safety

Letter: The Path Away From Violence

To the Editor: I would like to commend Dr. Jim Filiano for his commentary about how our culture is nurturing violence in our children (“A Culture That Nurtures Future Murderers,” Dec. 19). In the virtual world of video games, lives are taken out with a click of the …

• Column: A Culture That Nurtures Future Murderers

Letter: Assignment for Rifle Owners

To the Editor: New Hampshire and Vermont rifle owners would perform a great public service if they would create a small study group to develop ideas that would curb intentional deadly attacks, or at least reduce them. Edmund Coffin Strafford …

Strafford’s Newton School Principal Resigns

Strafford — The Newton School is searching for a new principal after the abrupt resignation of Judy Ross, who left Friday after four months on the job. Ross announced her departure to parents on Thursday in an email, and then to the wider community Friday in a post …

Letter: Stick to the Facts, Please

To the Editor: Robust political dialog is alive and well in the Upper Valley. But it would be so much more productive if the arguments made by those who write thoughtful letters to the editor were based on facts. In the past two weeks, a number of letters …