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.
Leslie Zucker is a certified professional life coach, a facilitator of a women's group, and...
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block,
Kerry Secrest serves as honorary consul of Lithuania to Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-A heartfelt thank you to...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes...
In early 2014, Roger Allbee set aside the issue he knew best - agriculture - to become the top administrator of Vermont's smallest hospital. It has been, he says, “a learning experience.” Allbee, who on July 13 announced his pending retirement from Grace Cottage Hospital, said he has become well-acquainted during the past three years with the regulatory and financial problems rural hospitals face. But he is also convinced there's still a place for a small, independent hospital focused on...
Act 46 is not the only challenge facing our school district (Windham Southeast Supervisory Union). Our superintendent is retiring at the end of this school year. The process for hiring his replacement is currently limited to an “internal” search - looking strictly within our current WSESU pool of employees for a candidate. There might be as few as one applicant. This strikes me as an inherently flawed and rushed process. People volunteering to serve on review committees are being asked...
Ian Hefele has finally realized his long-held dream of staging in America a work by South African writer Athol Fugard. For the next two weekends, March 16-18 and 23-25, Vermont Theater Company presents Fugard's The Road to Mecca at the Hooker-Dunham Theater, 139 Main St., in downtown Brattleboro. The play concerns a senior South African widow, Miss Helen, who has been working on an overgrown sculpture garden. Although a neighbor, pastor Marius, urges Helen to move to a senior home,
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