BRATTLEBORO — Why do the vast majority of pro-Vermont Yankee pieces printed herewith emanate from New Hampshire?
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
Windham County may soon get its first National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter. Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest civil rights organization. They describe their mission as being “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.” There are more than 2,000 NAACP units across the country, and more than 500,000 members. A staff member at the national headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland, said that...
The journey through Sandglass Theater's almost-40-year history continues with weekly releases of archival video from productions that are no longer being performed. August will present three collaborative works and conclude with a special presentation of the recently retired D-Generation: an Exaltation of Larks. A question-and-answer session will accompany each livestream and will include special guests such as Sandglass founders, ensemble members, and collaborators. Sandglass will host these presentations as one-time events throughout the summer months via sandglasstheater.org, as well as...
On Dec. 7, Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke powerfully to his fellow senators to block a $650 million weapons sale to Saudi Arabia. In Yemen, 230,000 people, many thousands of them children, have been killed by this war, largely because of Saudi Arabia and its partners, enabled by the United States. Why in the world would the U.S. reward a regime that's caused such pain? It was commendable that following Bernie's speech, 30 senators voted against the president's arms sale -
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