BRATTLEBORO — Shela Linton has always been awesome for Brattleboro. She wants to empower other people.
In light of this kind of commitment, activism becomes clear as humanitarianism.
Django Grace describes himself as an environmentalist, skier, chiller, and lifelong Brattleborian. He graduated from...
Chloe Learey is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development...
WESTMINSTER WEST-My recent essay in The Commons revealed the unique position of Vermont as a...
Roger Allbee served as secretary of agriculture, farms, and markets for Vermont in the administration...
A federal agency voted on Aug. 1 in favor of allowing cable companies to include the value of services and equipment that they have previously provided at no cost to states and municipalities for use of public property. This vote changes a decades-old rule, permitting the telecommunications companies to deduct the value of that equipment and those services from the fees that have long gone in full to local-access public, educational, and government (PEG) cable stations like Brattleboro Community Television...
New Hampshire author James Rousmaniere discusses Water Connections, his new book about what fresh water means to us and what we mean to water, at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center on Thursday, July 18, at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to all. After the talk, Rousmaniere will sign copies of the book, which will be available for purchase at the Museum. Published in June, Water Connections explores water-related changes in technology, pollution, economic values, and ideas...
When my roommate, Frank Parker, was stopped by the doorman in the fancy lobby, it could only have been racism. My therapist's office was on the fifth floor; I had invited Frank to attend a session. We were in our early 20s. Frank always dressed well and was impeccably groomed. In those days, I was perennially scruffy, yet I always walked past the doorman, apparently unnoticed. By his skin color and features, Frank was identifiably “black.” Regardless of my ancestry...
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