BRATTLEBORO — I'd like to publicly thank my family, friends, neighbors, and fellow townspeople for their support in my recent campaign to represent Brattleboro's District 3 as state representative.
I spent the summer knocking on doors and talking with hundreds of residents. I learned that while we might differ on specific opinions, we share a mutual desire to make our town a great place to live.
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It's Vermont's fifth season - mud season - and it's in full swing this year like none other. “The annual mud season in Marlboro is especially bad this year,” resident Adrian Segar wrote on a public Facebook post on Monday in one of innumerable dispatches from residents on the social media platform. “The town's 60 miles of dirt roads are essentially unpassable,” he continued. “School is canceled today because the school buses can't get through. We got a car out...
The Aug. 26 Vermont primary election is quickly approaching. Windham County is fortunate to have four Democratic State Senate candidates vying for the two open seats, offering an opportunity to explore in greater depth the issues facing our state. Over the next two years, our legislature will need to grapple with complex policy issues including: constructing and paying for single-payer health care, advancing rapid clean-energy development, improving our early-childhood system, increasing access to affordable food and housing, and fostering economic...
On Sunday, Nov. 24, folk icon Mark Erelli plays a brunchtime show at the Windham Ballroom. Erelli's not some grizzled road dog from the sepia-toned past but it's hard to imagine the modern folk scene without him. The 14-odd years that he's been making music professionally has helped to infuse the industry with his own youthful vigor, all while he became a fixture in his own right. With nearly a dozen records behind him, dErelli has a considerable oeuvre from...
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