A contribution to the Sept. 4 Letters from Readers column called out U.S. Rep. Peter Welch for not voicing support for impeaching President Donald Trump.
Welch, in fact, called for Trump's impeachment on July 18.
Sometimes, the choir needs to get preached to. In the bluest town in the bluest county of Vermont, approximately 500 people crowded onto the Brattleboro Common for an outdoor noontime “town meeting” on Labor Day with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. The stop on Sept. 6 was part of a series of five such meetings held around Vermont during the Labor Day weekend, with stops in Springfield, Newport, St. Johnsbury, and Middlebury to talk about a $3.5 trillion budget resolution...
The Brattleboro Music Center's Chamber Series presents "Castle of Our Skins: Love and Justice" on Saturday, March 30. This portrait concert, set for 7 p.m. at the BMC, features the music of Adolphus Hailstork, and includes such works as Deep River rhapsody for string quartet, "Who Is Sylvia?" Sanctum rhapsody for viola and piano, String Quartet No. 2, Variations on "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," and "Summer. Life. Song." Hailstork has written numerous works for chorus, solo voice, piano, organ, various...
We are tremendously fortunate to have Lana Dever running as a candidate for the WSESD school board. I have been a teacher in a public school for 16 years, and I am the parent of two kids who attend public school in Brattleboro; Lana is absolutely the person I want to help navigate our schools through the myriad of complex issues they are facing today. I had the privilege of working with Lana in the fall of 2020 when we...
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