Opposition to Vermont Yankee is more like a religion than a war.
Fric Spruyt is a property owner and property manager in Brattleboro and a member of...
BRATTLEBORO-The recent eclipse that Vermonters were able to experience was beyond breathtaking. My husband and...
PUTNEY-As a physician and a hospice volunteer, I read with interest the recent article highlighting...
BELLOWS FALLS-I see as a huge problem the number of apartments and houses being used...
“Most of the time we can get fire to do what we want it to do,” said Fire Chief Michael Bucossi. “We see ugly things,” he continued. “It's the ugliness that you can't control.” Firefighting doesn't wear down a firefighter's psyche, say past and present personnel at the Brattleboro Fire Department. It's finding the body of the child that hid during a fire... It's trying to console family members after a loved one has committed suicide... It's crawling into a...
Different eras have their own pathologies. The 1950s were the “age of anxiety,” in W.H. Auden's famous phrase, and I came of age in the era when paranoia and cults were a predominant feature. In the epigraph to his novel Howards End, E.M. Forster wrote: “only connect.” This phrase, which I first read in 1978, has always stuck with me, as I am a veteran of conspiracy theories and the cults built around them. It has been a long time...
Thanks to positive response from the public and a generous offer by the owner of the space, “14 Artists, 3 Days,” a show and sale featuring members of Brattleboro-West Arts (BWA), will continue Thursday, Dec. 19, through Sunday, Dec. 22, from noon to 5 p.m. each day, in Suite 106 of the C.F. Church Building at 80 Flat St. The large space was filled at times to near capacity during the Dec. 13 opening reception, and attendance was steady Dec.
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