BRATTLEBORO — We thank this community for supporting the Amber Bernier scholarship at our fifth Walk for Amber StorySlam, cosponsored by Strolling of the Heifers.
We had entertaining stories with a wonderful audience.
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And just like that, the town has a new Planning Commission. At its Jan. 10 meeting, the Selectboard reorganized the body, announcing it had decided to reduce it from nine members to five, for at least the time being. The board appointed Michael Szostak to a one-year term, Jethro Eaton and Charles Light to two-year terms, and Julie Howland and Jeannette Tokarz to three-year terms, having selected the final candidates using criteria and a process that were never defined in...
I am constantly amazed when Republicans such as Gerard Cloutier suggest that they support Donald Trump's “return to law and order” and “ethics of hard work.” First off, the Trump administration is the most corrupt in my lifetime - he puts fellow Republican crook, and law-and- order hypocrite, Richard Nixon and his merry band of thieves to shame. The number of Trump's friends who have been indicted, the profiteering of millions of dollars off his properties from our tax dollars,
Conflict between the generations is a given. The February production by the Brattleboro Union High School Players of the musical Mamma Mia! explores, through the songs of the pop group ABBA, the relationship between a single mother and her daughter. The show was a hugely popular 1999 stage hit and an acclaimed 2008 movie. The daughter, Sophie, is about to be married at her mother's taverna on the fictional Greek island of Kalokairi. She really wants to have her father...
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