BRATTLEBORO — Thank you, Meg McCarthy, for your well-written commentary.
It is important that Vermont keep its prisoners here in Vermont - especially when they have lived the majority of their lives here.
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Town Manager Peter Elwell hoped for a clear majority from the Special Representative Town Meeting vote on March 12 on the Police-Fire Facilities Project. Elwell got more than he hoped for. The results were clear: Town Meeting Members overwhelmingly approved relocating the Police Department to Black Mountain Road, 111 to 27. The vote also authorized using $4.5 million of the funds allocated in 2012 for renovating the new location on Black Mountain Road. In all, 138 Town Meeting members cast...
Let's recognize health care as a human right by extending it to all people in the United States and funding it by tax revenues. Let's reckon each other's inherent worth way above our unfair market value. So shall we invest in one another, and, what's more, express our love for one another? Let's recognize love as a cardinal American value. Is this proper for a secular republic? Yes. Though religions do promote love, love is an observable phenomenon, probably explicable...
The most common misconception people have about River Gallery School, located in the Wilder Building in the heart of downtown Brattleboro, is that it is a private institution. So believes Donna C. Hawes, the Development Coordinator/Administrator at the School, who wants to make clear that it is a nonprofit dedicated to serving the community of Southern Vermont. “Too many people are afraid to come through our doors,” she says. “They won't take any classes or workshops because they believe they...
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