PUTNEY — I absolutely loved Robin MacArthur's story about mud season, cheerfully slowing down, Tropical Storm Irene, three generations, and their love of life here in New England [“Without wheels,” Voices, March 21].
Rick Gordon was the founding director of the Compass School, which operated in Westminster from...
BRATTLEBORO-Have you been to 69A Elliot St. yet? Please stop in soon! It's such a...
BRATTLEBORO-I am a Connecticut-born Yankee American, second-generation Irish immigrant, raised-Catholic, 62-year-old woman working in Brattleboro.
DUMMERSTON-Without wanting to validate Trump's demonization of America's shockingly large homeless population, I would like...
Franz Reichsman stood to make a motion that the Windham County Democratic Committee support a resolution to impeach President Donald J. Trump. “Whoo-hoo!” someone cheered. Despite a previous meeting of the committee being marked by division over support for party leadership at the state level [“Democrats weigh in on embezzlement,” News, Sept. 11], members quickly agreed to support the resolution to impeach Trump. This motion passed unanimously on a voice vote. The resolution will also be sent to Vermont's Congressional...
Four local artists - Tina Olsen, Jillian Farwell, Roxcell Bartholomew, and Lauren Watrous - will be featured in a new exhibition at 118 Elliot, 118 Elliot St., when it reopens Friday, Sept. 4. The exhibition is 118 Elliot's first since the pandemic hit in March. An outdoor, safe-distance reception will begin at 4 p.m. in the back lot, which will be closed to cars. “There will be plenty of space to safely gather while taking turns viewing the exhibition in...
Nancy Braus, a retired independent bookseller, is a longtime activist. GUILFORD-It is August. I am not the only person who is feeling rage daily, usually many times a day. It takes very little to trigger this outrage - just a look at the arrogance of the Trumpers, the killing off of the civil rights of anyone who is not a white, straight Christian who is just fine with fascism, of the passivity of the majority of political figures and institutions...
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