PUTNEY — I absolutely loved Robin MacArthur's story about mud season, cheerfully slowing down, Tropical Storm Irene, three generations, and their love of life here in New England [“Without wheels,” Voices, March 21].
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...
The first non-Marlboro-College program to take place on its former campus drew 20 fencing athletes, along with seven coaches and a few parents, to the property now owned by Democracy Builders Fund and its Degrees of Freedom program. Students of the Tim Morehouse Fencing Club trained on campus as part of the school's annual summer camp program. The founder of the eponymous program, Morehouse, who earned a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing, said that holding the...
I was stunned and appalled to read Malaika Puffer's Viewpoint about the proposed facility that would result in psychiatric incarceration. I have long written about the flaws in psychiatric practice. I also had the unhappy opportunity to witness cruel and inappropriate psychiatric hospital practices when my mother suffered severe episodes of depression and spent long months locked up, dragged into electroconvulsive therapy chambers, and overmedicated against her will in the days of Draconian treatments from which she never recovered. There...
Gallery in the Woods, 145 Main St., presents its Winter Holiday show - Karen Gaudette's Animalia: “Welcome Yule.” There will be an opening reception for the artist on Friday, Nov. 1, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., during Gallery Walk. The Moondogs will celebrate with music. Gaudette offers joyful black and white drawings dedicated to the celebration of Yuletide, inspired by medieval illustrations, with images intended to inspire us to conserve, protect, and appreciate nature. Animal minstrels welcome back the sun...
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