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.
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...
A 38-year-old Westminster man entered a not guilty plea to a charge of manslaughter after a fatal stabbing at a Westminster home early Sunday morning. Lonnie Place appeared in Windham Superior Court in Brattleboro on Monday to answer to the charge. He is being held without bail. Vermont State Police said Michael Johnson, 37, of Bellows Falls, was stabbed in the chest at the home of Christina Allcock in the Shady Pine Mobile Home Park shortly before 1:30 a.m. on...
A new show by visual and fiber artist Ruth Shafer opened Aug. 21 in the new gallery space in Hermit Thrush Brewery's expanded storefront. The show features fiber wall hangings, works on cardboard, and mixed-media canvases. Shafer works from her home studio in Brattleboro. “I sew, weave, crochet, draw, write, and experiment to make art that amuses me,” she says on her website. “Much of my work is about 'inner life,' from the private experience of the body at home...
I'm here watching the snow come down, wondering if this storm will impact my electric bill next year. In case you haven't heard, four days before it went into effect, Green Mountain Power announced a $1.50-a-month surcharge for all of its customers to pay for last year's storm damage. You already pay about $14 a month for this. Green Mountain Power suits couldn't do this alone, I hope. So what state official or public service overseer, attorney general, or governor...
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