Django Grace describes himself as an environmentalist, skier, chiller, and lifelong Brattleborian. He graduated from...
Chloe Learey is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development...
WESTMINSTER WEST-My recent essay in The Commons revealed the unique position of Vermont as a...
Roger Allbee served as secretary of agriculture, farms, and markets for Vermont in the administration...
Police candidate Michael Cable left for the Vermont Police Academy in Pittsford on Monday. Sixteen weeks of intense training later he expects to return as a local police officer. And he'll have met a goal he's aspired to since he was a kid. Cable, 22, has always wanted a position in law enforcement. This Putney resident, who grew up in and around Brattleboro, said becoming a police officer in his home town has been his dream for years. “I'm eager...
Comedian Ed Smyth will “serve up a nonstop silly-string of brain-twisty characters and bits” that organizers say are “absurd for adults, goofy for kids, clean for your grandma,” at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 30 at Stage 33 Live, 33 Canal Street. Smyth has been a regular at the Finger Lakes Comedy Festival since 2016, performed a weeklong show at Rochester Fringe, and has appeared at the Maine Comedy Festival. “He is a friend to all,” organizers wrote in a...
My mom died a number of years ago, and she died at home in Vermont with her family and her loved ones by her side. That day, my father and I sat on the couch, side by side. I couldn't tell you how long we sat there, but we were quiet. Three minutes could have gone by, 30 minutes could have gone by, three hours could have gone by - I just don't know. Everybody was in the house, and...
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