BRATTLEBORO — Thank you for having ears for this story, and the wherewithal to share it with us all.
We are headed into what seems to be a hard winter in a land of hard winters. We have to talk about the homeless in our midst.
And do something.
Leslie Zucker is a certified professional life coach, a facilitator of a women's group, and...
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block,
Kerry Secrest serves as honorary consul of Lithuania to Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-A heartfelt thank you to...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes...
The proposed sale of the Marlboro College campus has received increased scrutiny from members of the community and racial justice advocates who are troubled by allegations of racism against the founder of the organization that seeks to buy the property. Members of a mostly anonymous grassroots collective, Black N Brown at DP, have raised allegations of abuse and racism at Democracy Prep Charter Schools, a network of schools founded by Seth Andrew, whose Democracy Builders Fund has a signed purchase-and-sale...
There are different kinds of thirst. There's the thirst that California experienced during wildfires this past year, where lives and even whole towns were obliterated. There's the thirst an entire culture can experience when people lose access to art, as in a pandemic. Then there's the thirst that one isn't quite aware of until it is quenched. That's what I experienced, on Flat Street the other day, when I encountered 10 images of artists put on display by the Vermont...
Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts, a two-year-old gallery showcasing contemporary art in solo and group exhibitions, has expanded. The gallery founded and operated by Petria Mitchell and Jim Giddings has opened up an annex in the atrium of the Brooks House, according to a news release. Mitchell said this expansion will enhance MGFA's ability to increase exposure of its artists by offering rotating exhibitions in the new, spacious, and light-filled public venue. “We will continue in our established location,” Mitchell said in...
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