BRATTLEBORO — My concern about the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee is that we focus too much on ideologues without adequate focus on workers.
Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
BRATTLEBORO-Under a gigantic maple tree at the site of an old mink farm along the banks of Whetstone Brook, delegates from the Vermont Legislature representing Brattleboro gathered to present a resolution congratulating the Brattleboro Area Farmers' Market (BAFM) on its 50th anniversary on Saturday. Sens. Wendy Harrison and Nader Hashim and Reps. Mollie Burke and Emilie Kornheiser were on hand for the festivities and commemoration of BAFM hitting its half-century milestone in 2024. They all co-sponsored the resolution, along with...
PUTNEY-The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series presents world music ensemble Yemen Blues on Sunday, Sept. 29, at 4 p.m., at the field behind The Putney Inn, 57 Putney Landing Rd. The band is touring in support of their recent album, Only Love Remains. Formed in 2010, organizers boast, "Yemen Blues was swiftly recognized as one of the planet's most adventurous and invigorating bands, at once contemporary and timeless, defiantly singular and deliciously eclectic." The quartet - Ravid Kahalani, the band's...
Nancy Braus, a retired independent bookseller, is a longtime activist. Since she submitted this piece, two other similar and significant protests have taken place in Brattleboro and other towns in the region. GUILFORD-It was impossible to read some of the accounts of April 5's Hands Off rallies around the country and the world and not feel that something has shifted. In the face of a massive fear campaign by the Trumpers - arresting people for speech that did not meet...
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