BELLOWS FALLS — Please cease all quoting of Deb Wright. She is simply a nuisance. Amplifying her rants does not help, in any sense. She should have no spotlight.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
BRATTLEBORO-What a depressing time to celebrate Independence Day, as No. 47 and his obedient and...
Sarah Ellis is a writer and mental health advocate who grew up in Brattleboro and...
BRATTLEBORO-Analysis of Brattleboro's Charter Revision Survey reveals growing dissatisfaction with the current Representative Town Meeting...
In what was a surprise to staff at the local parochial school, students at St. Michael School pried a combination of white, red, green, and blue gum off the pews on Friday. “We're going to forgive them,” Thies said, praising the students for taking “a community minded approach to cleaning the pews.” Chewing gum is against school policy, but some students speculated that the gum might have been on the pews when they were placed in the chapel at least...
Students in Brattleboro and Dummerston recently received a visit from an ambassador named Juliet Lubwama. Unlike some ambassadors, Lubwama isn't a diplomat from another country. She's a literary ambassador from suburban Philadelphia, and she is traveling around the northeast U.S. visiting schools and community groups to give workshops on poetry. Lubwama, a high school senior from Downington, Pa., was recently chosen from thousands of young writers to be one of five National Student Poets. The award is granted by the...
It's hard to believe, given Donald Trump's constant and egregious lies, his frequent name-calling and hate speech, his puerile tongue lashings, his visible ineptitude, and his recent debate performance, that he can be viewed as a serious threat to Hillary Clinton's election in November. Issues and behavior that would have brought down any other candidate - ranging from imitating a disabled reporter to insulting a Gold Star family, to being involved in three serious lawsuits, to refusing to reveal his...
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