BRATTLEBORO — This is a great story and tribute to Marty Rancourt. I can say I've known him since he was born.
Good luck to him as he opens a new door.
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...
“I would like to say one or two things about other things happening in our country.” With those words, U.S. Senator and 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., launched into a critique of the Trump administration and the Republican majority delivered to a packed house at the Latchis Theatre on March 16. It's been nearly two years since Bernie Sanders has last visited Brattleboro, and it was clear he is as popular as ever. Sanders was there to announce $300,000...
This year marks 47 years for Vermont's unique Green Up Day tradition. Always the first Saturday in May, the event will bring volunteers statewide to the town roads in their communities on May 6 to tackle trash and litter along roadsides, in public spaces, natural landscapes and waterways. Vermont was the first state in the nation to designate one special day for cleaning the entire state. Many thanks to the hardworking state employees at the Agency of Transportation who clean...
The Brattleboro Music Center (BMC) welcomes the return of In Stile Moderno Friday, March 3, as part of its Season Guest Concert Series. The 7:30 p.m. performance at the BMC, titled “The English Orpheus,” derives its name from the moniker for Henry Purcell, a Baroque composer of the late 1600s. “If Orpheus charmed humans, animals, and even the gods of the Underworld with his lyre, then Purcell,” writes the BMC in a news release, “did the same for kings, queens,
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