BRATTLEBORO — I was so proud of my town when I read about its recognition of COVID-19-period unsung heroes.
This expression of compassion, this unwillingness to allow such efforts to be taken for granted, is exactly the reason I moved to this town.
Bravo, Brattleboro, and special thanks to Compassionate Brattleboro for this, for our monthly compassion stories, and for your efforts to help reduce the heartbreaking divisiveness in our country.
Marc Schauber is executive director of the Coalition for Vermont Student Equity (CVTSE). WEST DOVER-Act...
Chuck Collins is co-editor of Inequality.org and author of the recent, Vermont-based novel Altar to...
BRATTLEBORO-To everyone at the Multicultural Center: I want to express my profound thanks and appreciation...
BRATTLEBORO-Near the end of the movie Golda, which was released for the 50th anniversary of...
DUMMERSTON-Clyde Johnson, best known as a veterinarian who retired from the Vermont–New Hampshire Veterinary Clinic, says that, although he was born in Pennsylvania, he came into the world mysteriously as a Vermonter. When asked how he came to live in the state, he shows his understated sense of humor by responding in sensible Vermont fashion. "In a car," he says. The Dummerston Historical Society has invited Johnson to speak on Sunday, April 21, at 2 p.m. about his years practicing...
I'm super fussy about wearing Coast Guard–approved personal flotation devices when I'm aboard any type of boat. Today, while paddling on the Connecticut River, we lost my husband Wayne's phone, our water bottle, a towel, and our canoe; but our life jackets may have saved our lives. We started out later than planned - one day later, to be exact. Wayne, always the heavy lifter, put our red Old Town Penobscot canoe on the car while I loaded the paddles...
Poems Around Town, an event held in celebration of National Poetry Month, returns for a fourth year. It is co-sponsored and organized by Write Action, Time to Write, the Brattleboro Literary Festival, and Brooks Memorial Library. Vermont poets and those within a 50-mile radius in the southeast tri-state region are invited to submit poems to Write Action for Poems Around Town. Chosen poems will appear in downtown Brattleboro shop windows during April, National Poetry Month. Submitted poems should be recent...
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