BELLOWS FALLS — I'm not sure what communities in this area have an easier time recruiting new people for fire departments or retaining them.
Most departments that I talk to - both in the area and out of the area - have the same issue as Putney.
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...
Kate Barry starts opening the first of a stack of cardboard boxes on the bar, her smile broadening into a grin. “These are our light fixtures,” she says excitedly, as her husband, Bruce Hunt, tools in hand, looks on, and their 3-year-old daughter, Juniper, sits on a barstool momentarily entranced by a solitary Lincoln log that she found here, somewhere in the space that will become The Collective. “All of this is new,” Barry says, gesturing to a gleaming array...
It is difficult to believe that the world is not spinning out of control. As I write, I am listening to President Obama's news conference following the killings of police in Dallas, an event that occurred in the same week that two horrendous killings of black men were committed by police officers and captured on social media. I am in a family cabin in Green River, a summer dwelling we have owned for more than five decades - an old...
Broadcast News, the next movie in the Journalism Film Series at the Latchis Theatre, is both a time capsule and a work of prophesy. This 1987 dramatic comedy starring Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks, and William Hurt will be shown on Sunday, Jan. 7, at 4 p.m., at the Latchis. Admission is free, but donations are welcome. The 1980s were a period of transition for broadcast journalism. It was the last decade, before the rise of the internet and 24-hour cable...
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