BRATTLEBORO-The legendary vocalist Sheila Jordan passed away on Monday, Aug. 11 at 3:50 p.m. at...
SOUTH NEWFANE-Respecting historic architectural elegance and adding their own imprimatur, Tom Concannon and Ravi Shimpi...
PUTNEY-Twilight Music and Next Stage Arts Project conclude the 22nd Twilight On The Tavern Lawn...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Music Center's 2025 Music Under the Stars series at Retreat Farm concludes Saturday,
The Board of Trustees of Grace Cottage Family Health & Hospital recently appointed Douglas F. DiVello to the position of chief executive officer, effective Feb. 12. DiVello succeeds Roger Allbee, who announced his plans last July to retire from this position as soon as a successor was hired. DiVello was the CEO at Alice Hyde Medical Center in Malone, N.Y., from 2012 until May 2017, when the hospital became part of the University of Vermont Health Network. From 2002-2012, he...
Through March 18, Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts, 183 Main St., presents “Winter Group,” an exhibit of new work by Donald Saaf, Torin Porter, Josh Bernbaum, and Jackie Abrams, and select work by their gallery artists. They are also pleased to welcome and introduce printmaker Erika Radich. An artists reception is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 11, from 5 to 7 p.m., with a collaborative artist talk set for Saturday, Feb. 10, at 5 p.m. Painter and collage artist Donald Saaf creates work...
If we lived in a civilized country, we would not have criminalized marijuana or any other drug. Drug criminalization indicates a sociopolitical mental-health problem. You see, it's normal for humans to consume drugs. It is not normal to criminalize and institutionalize our citizens because of drug use. The only time drug use should be criminalized is when a drug is explicitly used in the commission of a “real” crime of deliberate or reckless acts of a violent or dangerous nature.
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