BRATTLEBORO — It is essential that the 1-percent local option sales tax be voted down at Annual Representative Town Meeting!
We cannot bear the weight of more reasons not to shop in Brattleboro. If this is passed, it indicates to me that our businesses are not wanted and that Brattleboro wants a barren downtown full of empty spaces.
It is completely unreasonable to even consider this tax!
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The Root Social Justice Center will hold a free BIPOC hair clinic for all ages on Saturday, May 27. As explained in a Facebook post from the racial justice organizing and community group, Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color “have a variety of hair types and textures that require hair care that just isn't centered when we live and exist in predominantly white spaces.” With hair stylists versed in working with BIPOC clients unavailable in the Brattleboro area,
Has anyone in Trumpworld read The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon? Message to Trumpsters: your man is a Russian plant. If you don't believe it, watch how Putin tools on our feckless, malignant, narcissistic neo-Nazi, and you'll see what I mean. The Trump has not been so much brainwashed as blackmailed, but the result is the same: a fifth column, as it were, groomed and dispatched to wreck our country. Step back and look at Putin, a mafia don and...
In December and January, the Wardsboro Public Library, 170 Main St., is exhibiting the pottery of Erin Stewart and Will Finkel. Finkel took his first pottery class when he was 5. He has spent the majority of his life working in, learning about, or teaching clay all over the country. His work has drawn acclaim for its style, lightness, and particularly the colors that he has achieved in his glazes over the years. Stewart has spent her life in one...
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