WEST BRATTLEBORO — Beautifully written! It's easy to lose sight of the ones we do help when we focus our hearts on the ones we can't.
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...
Mild-mannered engineer Bob Stevens wasn't seeking to become a development superhero when he donned a hard hat 10 years ago to venture into the smoldering shell of Brattleboro's fire-ravaged Brooks House. “I went through with emergency responders to determine if the structure was stable,” he recently recalled. “Everything was so wet, the building was literally weeping.” Stevens determined the central downtown block was soaked but salvageable. What he didn't know was that he and several partners would buy it and,
Ever since the Reagan administration, and probably before that, we have been subjected to the Republican/right-wing Democratic dismantling of the role of government in the lives of ordinary people. Progressive activists have spent decades struggling for the sort of country where ordinary people could have some agency at a time when the U.S. was becoming more of a playground for the wealthiest every year. It was abundantly clear that we would never be able to rely on Washington to use...
Director Tony Lechner invites one and all to join Rock Voices, the area's only community rock chorus, for an evening of rock and pop classics. The concert will take place at Brattleboro's Centre Congregational Church, 193 Main St., on Friday, Jan. 4, at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Backed by a professional rock band featuring Ross Bellenoit on guitar, this 100-plus voice choir will deliver the harmonies of many classic and contemporary favorites, performing the music of Phish,
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