BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Guilford's fire station needs paint” [Town and Village, Dec. 5]:
A well-reported article. I drive by the Guilford Fire Department all the time and wondered why it was blue.
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...
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BELLOWS FALLS-I see as a huge problem the number of apartments and houses being used...
The Turner family had a name for their hardscrabble Grafton homestead, and that name reflected a long journey from slavery to freedom. “The home place was named 'Journey's End,' 'cause father never wanted to go no further after he got up there on that hilltop,” recalled Daisy Turner, whose parents founded the farm in the early 1870s. The Turner family's tale survives because of Daisy's prodigious and well-documented gifts as a storyteller. But their mountaintop home has been mostly reclaimed...
Dec. 24, 2020: The reality is that we are all dying, and dying is a beautiful part of life. Taking a good, honest look at death feels so essential, yet is hard to do in the everyday grind - it seems it can be truly looked at only when we are face to face with it. Now don't go thinking, not for one second, that I am special. “That Angela, she's amazing - if anyone can heal from cancer, she...
Next Stage Arts Project presents “The Mushroom Cure,” with Adam Strauss, at Next Stage on Friday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m. According to a news release, “The Mushroom Cure” tells the true story of how Strauss, inspired by a scientific study showing that hallucinogenic mushrooms may cure obsessive-compulsive disorder, embarked on a program of vigilante psychopharmacology in an attempt to treat his debilitating OCD with psychedelics. The show, starring Strauss and directed by Jonathan Libman, first ran in the Edinburgh...
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