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.
Leslie Zucker is a certified professional life coach, a facilitator of a women's group, and...
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block,
Kerry Secrest serves as honorary consul of Lithuania to Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-A heartfelt thank you to...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes...
Nearly 600 employees at the Brattleboro Retreat have a new, three-year contract. The organization's deal with Local 5086 of the United Nurses and Allied Professionals Union covers employees in several departments and includes the facility's numerous mental health workers. It provides for raises and an increase in the Brattleboro Retreat's contributions to employee retirement plans, while also paving the way for a possible end to mandatory overtime. Contract talks began last fall and wrapped up in January, hospital administrators and...
I'm wondering, since Texas has decided the death penalty should be applicable for certain cases of abortion (I presume it wouldn't be all cases), what about the case of one George W. Bush and his obvious crimes against humanity? According to Gilbert Burnham of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, there were 654,995 excess deaths due to the gratuitous American invasion of Iraq in March 2003, through summer 2006. Since the U.S.-initiated butchery there lasted well...
Eight members of the Brattleboro hub of the Vermont Watercolor Society (VWS) will show their work through the end of December in gallery spaces at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church. The artists are Carolyn Allbee, Maisie Crowther, Nancy DiMauro, John Dimick, Lynn Hoeft, Marlene Kramer, Molly Martin, and Cath Stockbridge. The local group meets regularly to plan exhibits and discuss and encourage individual style and mastery of this challenging medium. They also participate in statewide juried shows with other VWS...
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