BRATTLEBORO — Thank you, Jeebus! And thank you, Wendy M. Levy [“A union-busting law firm separates Co-op from its expressed ideals,” Letters, Oct. 17], for your articulation of the problem.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
A Brattleboro businessman's push to reform Vermont's alimony laws appears to be gaining traction in the Legislature. The state Senate Judiciary Committee on March 11 unanimously approved a bill that would create a “Spousal Support and Maintenance Task Force” to consider whether changes are needed in the state's alimony statute. That vote came two days after Rick Fleming, president of Vermont Alimony Reform, made an impassioned pitch for change to committee members. Sen. Dick Sears, D-Bennington and Judiciary Committee chair,
Bartleby's Books will host an event with Louise Miller, author of the just-published novel, “The City Baker's Guide to Country Living,” on Friday, Aug. 11, at 6:30 p.m., according to a news release. Miller is a writer and pastry chef who lives and works in Boston. According to the release, she was born to two Teamsters, then raised in urban Boston until the age of eight, when she moved to a posh suburb where “she quickly learned that in order...
On Friday, Sept. 8, many in the area experienced an amazing thunderstorm - possibly one of the most intense lightning strikes that I can ever remember. We have a very old, very large, disabled dog. Luke generally spends 23 hours a day asleep - he takes an occasional mosey to the brook to lie down in the cool water. He has severe arthritis and diabetes, and is almost blind and likely deaf, but he still likes his food, swims, and...
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