RE: “Visions, values, and tragedy” [Special Focus, July 17]:
After two years, reading this story breaks my heart. Richard Gagnon, thank you for writing. My prayers for you, and for everyone in Brattleboro, continue.
Jonathan Elwell organizes with Vermont Just Justice, an organization whose mission is "to promote the...
Elizabeth Bridgewater is executive director of the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust. BRATTLEBORO-Every April, communities...
Libby Bennett and Rita Ramirez submitted this piece on behalf of Groundworks Collaborative, where they...
Elayne Clift (elayne-clift.com) has written this column about women, politics, and social issues from the...
This was not a typical candidates forum, the candidates at the forum were not typical candidates, and the questions presented to them were not typical queries about potholes and property taxes. Those were the takeaways from the Feb. 23 Selectboard Candidates Forum at the Brattleboro Municipal Center. Put together by Green Mountain Crossroads, Post Oil Solutions, Vermont Workers Center, 350.org Brattleboro, Rights & Democracy, Groundworks Collaborative, and Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity, the two-hour forum was heavy on social-justice...
Life is short - or, as the millennials say, yolo (you only live once). We often use both phrases when we indulge ourselves. But what is hidden beneath these casual sayings? Often, it is a fear that what we want in life is fleeting, so we should grab an ephemeral moment that might make us happy. For years, I have been mulling a related behavior of why, knowing we are mortal and our time is limited, all of us have...
Kathy Torrey has been fascinated with the folklore and music of the Scottish Hebrides since she was a young girl, reading letters and listening to recordings made by family friends who documented the region's folk traditions starting in the 1920s. Torrey was inspired to spend a year visiting these friends, and collecting folk songs and stories herself during a “wanderyear” break from college. She has continued to visit the islands for more “collecting,” adding to the archive of research of...
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