BRATTLEBORO — Thank you for painting a quick sketch of Charles Monette, who, after 19 years, is once again presenting his artistic work on the stage. I look forward to seeing “Becoming van Gogh.”
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...
All three open seats on the Selectboard here will see races on Town Meeting Day on Tuesday, March 7. Incumbent Elizabeth McLoughlin is being challenged by former Selectboard member Richard DeGray for a three-year seat, while incumbent Jessica Gelter is vying with four other candidates for two one-year seats. In-person voting will take place Tuesday, March 7 at American Legion Post 5, 32 Linden St., from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Absentee ballots must be requested, because — unlike the...
Marlboro College will host a five-part series of talks, from July 5 to Aug, 2, providing facts and understanding on the current refugee situation in the U.S. The series, “Refugees in the USA Today: Gaining Some Perspective,” runs concurrently with Marlboro's MAT in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages summer residency, but is open to the public. “There are more than 65 million displaced people in the world today, yet only a small percentage of these are 'resettled,'” Beverley...
Anyone who has seen pictures of the Taliban-battered giant Buddhas in Afghanistan, or the destruction of the ancient city of Palmyra by ISIS, will understand why environmentalists and naturalists are devastated by Donald Trump's executive order calling for the identification of U.S. national monuments that could be rescinded or resized. The destructive nature of that executive order is on a scale no less traumatic than the travesties committed by the world's two-most-uncivilized bodies, and the fact that the present administration...
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