Isn't Martha M Moravec's writing awesome? Martha and I have been online friends for the past few years, and I'm excited to see her book become a reality.
Bravo!
Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, Mollie Burke, Michael Mrowicki, and Zon Eastes are state representatives; Nader...
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
Kevin O'Connor remembers taking in the Fourth of July fireworks show at Living Memorial Park as a child with his family. “It was magical,” the journalist and member of the By the People: Brattleboro Goes Fourth citizens committee said, recalling the bursts of color in the night sky. This year marks Brattleboro's 41st annual Independence Day celebration. Yet for O'Connor, the committee, and the community, a sea change accompanies this year's July 4 festivities: For the first time, the committee...
PUTNEY-The Landmark Trust USA (LTUSA) invites the community to learn more about one of our region's most distinctive architectural typologies, one that many Northern New Englanders call home: the connected farm building. On Tues., May 14, at 7:00 p.m., LTUSA will host noted scholar and vernacular architecture historian Thomas C. Hubka to speak on his seminal book Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn. The presentation will take place at Next Stage Arts, 15 Kimball Hill, and will be livestreamed.
The heightened publicity in mainstream media of police brutality against people of color, together with the COVID-19 pandemic, has vividly illuminated the inequality within our communities. Both of these “pandemics” have evolved out of structures that uphold a system of profit for the few and exploitation of the many. Policing - along with its brutality against people of color - has roots in the 1700s, when white folks were recruited, and sometimes forced, to join slave patrols, in order to...
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