BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Family Services staff of the Vermont Department for Children and Families deeply appreciates our Agency of Human Services colleagues and community partners who have provided support to us following the loss of our colleague Lara Sobel.
Your messages of condolence and thoughtful gestures have been comforting during this difficult time.
We are grateful to all those who have shown us such support and to be part of such a caring community.
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...
The Vermont House on March 11 narrowly overrode Gov. Phil Scott's veto of H.361, a measure that allows Brattleboro to amend its charter so that 16- and 17-years-olds can vote in local elections. The chamber's 99-member coalition of Democrats and Progressives was joined by one Republican and two Independents to pass the measure by a vote of 102-47. One hundred votes are necessary to meet the two-thirds threshold required to override a gubernatorial veto in the House. Municipal charter changes...
Although the ruling felt tragic, it came as no surprise that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, sending the country back to a time when women died from injuries suffered from wire hangers used to perform illegal abortions. We already had the memo in early May, in the form of a leaked draft of the majority opinion. We knew what was coming. So it's 1972 again, and I'm thinking it's only been since 1967 that a white man could...
With an up-cycled twist on basket weaving, a three-part workshop - taught by local artists Jackie Abrams, Jen Wiechers, and Janette Smuts - will benefit the Groundworks Food Shelf. The workshop, which takes place on three Thursday evenings (March 30, April 6, and April 20) at the River Gallery School's Main Street Studio in Brattleboro, will cover the art of making 'yarn' from used plastic bags to crochet strong, colorful, and multi-purpose tote bags, according to a news release. “I...
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