BRATTLEBORO — Integrity is a rare word these days. Susan Keese had it!
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...
BELLOWS FALLS-I see as a huge problem the number of apartments and houses being used...
Good day to you, windy hamlet dwellers! Actually, by this Friday, the county that occupies southeastern Vermont may live up to its name, especially in the high terrain. For the mid-week period, we will enjoy above-seasonable temperatures and calm conditions. However, by Thursday night into Saturday morning, we will be watching several atmospheric features that may combine to produce a late-season snowstorm accompanied by strong easterly winds that could cramp the style of many a southern Vermonter. It could cause...
In her memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence Rebecca Solnit writes, “To be a young woman is to face your own annihilation in innumerable ways.” Nothing proves her point more powerfully than the debacle of the Supreme Court as it debated the likely demise of legal abortion in this country. With stunning ignorance of and disregard for women's lives, five men and one woman in black robes pontificated and danced around the real issue before them: women's bodily integrity, agency, and...
Brattleboro writer Diana Whitney's debut book of poetry, Wanting It, was released in June. “The title is provocative, but not erotic,” Whitney explains. “It's the experience of longing, but not necessarily for a lover.” Whitney's poems are about longing for some experience other than what one is having: for the next stage of life, for merging with nature, or for excitement. And sometimes, she says, longing means craving material things. Wanting It is divided into four parts, arranged in seasons.
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