BRATTLEBORO — Thank you, Meg McCarthy, for your well-written commentary.
It is important that Vermont keep its prisoners here in Vermont - especially when they have lived the majority of their lives here.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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Representative Town Meeting here will convene on Saturday, March 23, at 8:30 a.m., in the Brattleboro Union High School gymnasium. If members do not finish the warrant, the meeting will recess at 5 p.m. and continue on Sunday, March 24, at 8:30 a.m. In anticipation of the RTM, the Selectboard hosted an informational meeting on March 13. "This is not the meeting to get into substantive debate on any of the articles," warned Selectboard Chair Ian Goodnow, who several times...
After two years of disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s 16th annual Northern Roots Traditional Music Festival returns on Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 28 and 29, with various in-person workshops, an evening concert, and three Sunday music sessions. Part of the traditional music calendar in New England, the Festival showcases the variety of northern musical traditions including Irish, Scottish, English, French Canadian, Shetland, New England, and, this year, French Bal Folk. Workshops at the Brattleboro Music Center are...
I ask your support in my campaign for a one-year term on the Brattleboro School Board. With the merger remaining unconfirmed, we sit at the crossroads of an uncertain future, of which my background in teaching, district level policymaking, and grant writing can be uniquely utilized to advocate in support of our community. Having started my career as a public school teacher of students with significant disabilities, I've had a lot of experience working with teachers, school directors, and superintendents,
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