RE: “Visions, values, and tragedy” [Special Focus, July 17]:
After two years, reading this story breaks my heart. Richard Gagnon, thank you for writing. My prayers for you, and for everyone in Brattleboro, continue.
Lindsey Britt is a textile artist, solution-finder, award-winning vegan baker, and nonprofit administrator who serves...
Tim Hayes is retired as a junior high school teacher at Marlboro School, where he...
Bert Picard is an activist, having retired as a Teamster truck driver who has organized...
The writer is the local organizer of NALC Branch 37. BRATTLEBORO-On Sunday, March 23, a...
For years, local officials and energy-efficiency advocates have been working to nurture and promote a “green building” industry in Windham County. Those efforts have taken on new urgency with the shutdown of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. And officials recently announced - with a boost from federal funding - creation of a new Green Building Cluster Study to identify the county's strongest assets in environmentally friendly construction and renovation. But energy efficiency is just one aspect of what some...
Yellow Barn's 2019-20 season of artist-residency performances continues with The Music Alliance Project, led by pianist Chase Morrin and vocalist Cordelia Tapping. Together with two Yellow Barn musicians - flutist Rosie Gallagher and cellist John Myerscough - they will perform a free public concert on Thursday, Feb. 20, beginning at 7:30 p.m., at Next Stage. Audience members are invited to stay for a post-concert discussion with the artists. The Music Alliance Project aims to bring classical and jazz musicians together...
Twenty-nine neighbors from Guilford and Vernon recently gathered to discuss issues and values they hold in common in this troubling, tumultuous political time and to begin organizing to effect much-needed change. The lively conversation naturally raised both local grassroots and national concerns. Anyone interested was invited and did join in, including Progressives, Democrats, Independents, and disaffected Republicans. The success of this community meeting will be followed up by another, tentatively scheduled for late October and will focus on one of...
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