BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Our nuclear spring” [Editorial, March 14].
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Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. WESTMINSTER-Democrats in the state Legislature scored some...
Fric Spruyt represents District 9 in Brattleboro's Representative Town Meeting. BRATTLEBORO-At the July 8 Brattleboro...
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Administrators are pushing ahead with plans to relocate Brattleboro's cold-weather homeless shelter, though it will begin operations a bit later than initially planned. The town's overflow shelter is scheduled to open Nov. 13 at the Winston Prouty campus, a few miles from the shelter's former longtime home in the First Baptist Church on Main Street. Organizers say the recent spate of relatively warm weather has given them a few extra weeks to hire staff and finalize details. And they're pledging...
“I'm the poster child for it's never too late,” said author William Kent Krueger from his home in St. Paul, Minn. Krueger didn't publish his first novel until he was nearly 50. Readers now know him for his Minnesota-set Cork O'Connor mysteries about an Iron Lake Ojibwe-Irish detective turned private eye. He released the 11th in the series, Northwest Angle, last year through Atria Books. Book No. 12 is in the editing process, and he has started book No. 13.
Thank you for bringing this story to light, and thank you to Mindy Haskins Rogers for her bravery in sharing it. I'm relatively new to the community, don't have kids in the school system, and don't know any of the people mentioned in the piece, but I support speaking truth to power, even (and especially) when it makes people uncomfortable and shatters the silence around these types of crimes. Those who believe that child abuse, sexual assault, and the sexual...
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