BRATTLEBORO — RE: “V-Why?” [Letters, Sept. 25].
Why do the vast majority of anti-Vermont Yankee protesters emanate from outside Vermont?
Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
During her first walk through the fire-gutted Brooks House last year, Tapp Barnhill, executive director of academic centers for the Community College of Vermont, remembers saying to members of the Mesabi Group, “[You] deserve a lifetime achievement award.” Fire ripped through the prominent downtown landmark in April 2011, destroying 60 apartments and displacing 10 businesses. Firefighters extinguished the accidental electrical fire, and the 80,000-square-foot historical structure remained standing, but uninhabitable without major renovations. Flash forward to March 14 and the...
In-Sight Photography Project, 183 Main St., will begin an in-person summer session of photography classes for ages 11–18 on June 21. Participants with all skill levels, creative interests, identities, and financial backgrounds are welcome. No one will be turned away for lack of ability to pay class fees, and no scholarship application is required. In-Sight offers both digital and analog classes at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, and the nonprofit has served more than 3,000 youth since 1992. This...
In 2018, the president at the time was perpetuating stigma and causing fear, blaming mass shootings on people with mental health challenges. At the time, I was a teacher and mental health advocate, and I asked to speak at Putney's March for our Lives rally. I addressed the crowd of 400 Vermonters, speaking about an issue close to my heart. In my talk - “Guns and Mental Illness: It's Not What You Think” - I raised concerns about the extraordinarily...
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