Little Bread & Puppet state goes up against big nuke and the fed gummit.
What could go wrong?
Tristan Roberts ([email protected]) is a former state representative, a small-scale farmer, and a writer who...
BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...
BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...
SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...
After 18 months of Act 46-related strife, Vernon may have gotten some relief from the Vermont Legislature. Within an omnibus education bill approved by the House and Senate is language that allows Vernon Town School District to vote itself out of the regional educational union, known as BUHS No. 6. Officials say the legislative language was carefully crafted to apply only to Vernon. And it could have a powerful effect in Windham Southeast Supervisory Union by breaking up a logjam...
“With the economy being so bad, and after such a long winter, now is a good time to get together and laugh,” says Orly Munzing, founder and executive director of Strolling of the Heifers. Munzing's organization hosts the Vermont Comedy Divas, “the only all-female, touring stand-up comedy troupe in the United States,”• for a stand-up comedy show on Saturday, April 4, at the Robert H. Gibson River Garden in downtown Brattleboro. A portion of the evening's proceeds will benefit Strolling...
Recently, as I was standing at my window on Western Avenue, a white SUV-like vehicle was stopped by the police. I saw three town police officers side by side and a sheriff's vehicle behind them. All the police had gotten out of their cars. They positioned themselves and had guns drawn. The officer in the town police car on the far left heading toward the Interstate had a weapon that looked like a submachine gun. He was standing by the...
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