Maggie Brown Cassidy
CommentatorMaggie Brown Cassidy recently retired from teaching French at Brattleboro Union High School. She was also a teacher trainer and founder of the BUHS Swiss Exchange, which provided homestays and immersion experiences for hundreds of students in Vermont and Geneva. She continues to teach adults and has written many features for the Brattleboro Reformer.
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Summer stretches ahead, and the best vacation value is only a few miles away from anywhere in Vermont. I鈥檓 talking about Vermont state parks. There are 57鈥�
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May is National Foster Care Month. And while the month is ending, here in Vermont the need for foster parents, especially for infants and adolescents,鈥�
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The end of the school year is approaching, and with it the end of my first year of retirement after 43 years of teaching French to high-school students. I鈥�
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When Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro announced an exhibit of local Native American artifacts, I made a special trip to the library, but then walked鈥�
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Suddenly, it seems Racism is bubbling up again 鈥� this time in unusual places like the Academy Awards.And many were surprised when the former Grand Wizard鈥�
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I grew up in rural upstate New York. I was lucky enough to live in a university town, so that when music changed in the sixties, and folk and gospel鈥�
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Town Meeting Day is coming up, and in towns and villages all over the state, people will gather for the two-part meeting. In one part, voters consider and鈥�
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After a mass shooting, making our country safer becomes everyone鈥檚 top priority, and sales of firearms typically reach new record levels. Gun dealers鈥�
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Many of my Facebook friends are former students in my French classes, so it鈥檚 unsurprising that after the attacks in Paris my Facebook page was flooded鈥�
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Vermont鈥檚 new law promoting the consolidation of school-districts is generating a lot of conversation and anxiety. Act 77 is getting less public鈥�