BRATTLEBORO — RE: “A community photographer, mentor, and friend” [Editorial, April 3]:
A nice tribute to a good friend who is already missed by many.
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...
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No one's been able to use the Vilas Bridge since 2009. But the 635-foot-long span still has its champions, as evidenced by a new resolution introduced last week in the Vermont House. Sponsored by four Windham County legislators, the resolution claims officials in New Hampshire - which owns most of the bridge - have shown “wanton neglect” in failing to repair the structure. And it urges the Granite State to “make every possible effort, on a timely basis,” to find...
In an ironic way, as horrible as it was, the Fourth of July shooting was the perfect illustration of the United States of America in 2022. This is the America we live in. This is the one that has been created by decades of inaction around weapons of war available to the sickest minds among us. The America we may fantasize about is gone. Maybe it was never there, but once it was closer to that idyllic image than what...
Those familiar with humor website Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency (www.mcsweeneys.net/tendency) might recognize the familiar “list” theme of Rebecca Coffey's new book, Nietzsche's Angel Food Cake … and Other “Recipes” For the Intellectually Famished. “Dorothy's Parker House Rolls: A Jazz Age Recipe” builds up to ask, “What is worse than a Pahkah House Roll?" “Sigmund Freud's 10 Steps to Great Fish” pairs the Oedipus complex with a preparation of trout. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Creature features in re-animated meatloaf. And the titular...
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