RE: “What happens when a library loses its spirit?” [Column, Sept. 25]:
What a beautiful and resonant description of what we love about and get from libraries!
Michael Gigante, Ph.D. notes: "This is a piece I wrote after the first Trump election...
ATHENS-A group of morally confused Brattleboro citizens have petitioned onto the March 4 Town Meeting...
DUMMERSTON-Dear Gov. Scott, You enjoy a broad, bipartisan base of support here in Vermont, elected...
The Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Human Services Committee submitted recommended funding for human services nonprofits...
Deputy Windham County State's Attorney Kerry Ann McDonald-Cady of Dover has been appointed to a Vermont Superior Court seat. McDonald-Cady was appointed on Sept. 30 by Gov. Phil Scott. Superior Court is the state's trial court consisting of civil, criminal, environmental, family, and probate divisions. She replaces former Superior Judge David Howard and will be assigned to the west region of the Superior Court, primarily in Rutland and Bennington counties. In a news release, Scott praised McDonald-Cady's “record of sound...
Tamara Stenn's story of what happened to her father-in-law at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital should leave every reader and resident of the greater Brattleboro area stunned, outraged, and deeply worried. It should also make every staff person responsible for the travesty that occurred, from the CEO down, deeply ashamed and fully committed to making sure this kind of thing never happens again. It is unbelievable and totally unacceptable that a 99-year-old emergency-room patient with two broken arms, on pain meds that...
Sandglass Theater recently added a new cement walkway to improve physical accessibility at the theater's events. While the theater has had a legally accessible grade for years, the gravel walkway has been less than adequate, especially in bad weather. The new walkway will make access easier for all events at the Putney venue. The walkway was funded by an anonymous local donor, and helps to bring an old Vermont building up to the standards of current use. Sandglass Theater is...
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