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It's nice to see the attention paid to the students and the respect to the teacher. We need more of this! Go Bernie!
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 Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) will hold a public hearing about the proposed fiscal year 2024 school operating/capital budgets on Tuesday, March 21 in the Brattleboro Union High School gymnasium. Business Manager Frank Rucker says he believes the board “supports this budget as a fiscally responsible plan to respond to our school's student and community needs.” The proposed $62,704,054 general operating budget for FY 2024 represents a $1,620,583 or 2.7 percent increase to this year's operating budget. However, the...
So the other shoe has fallen, as expected: The Marlboro College we knew is gone forever. We are all in some form of mourning. Emerson College is an honest institution, and I wish the best for the Marlboro Institute of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies there, but while our academic program may be largely reproducible in an urban setting, the rural setting close to nature plus the sense of community with the town meeting form of self-government, all of which...
The Jeremy Kittel Band brings its bluegrass-Celtic-gypsy-jazz to the Hooker Dunham Theater in Brattleboro on Friday, July 10, at 7:30 p.m. Grammy-nominated fiddler Jeremy Kittel was a five-year member of the Turtle Island String Quartet, and works with artists from My Morning Jacket to Aoife O'Donovan. His latest CD Chasing Sparks (Compass) features Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer. This year, Kittel has teamed up with Florida mandolin prodigy Josh Pinkham and Vancouver guitar whiz Quinn Bachand for a summer tour.
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