DUMMERSTON — RE: The premature and shortsighted closing of Vermont Yankee:
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
July 4 closures in Brattleboro BRATTLEBORO - In observance of Independence Day, all town offices will be closed on Friday, July 4, with the exception of emergency services. Parking is free at all metered spaces and in the pay-and-display lots on Friday. All other violations, including extended parking will be enforced. Brooks Memorial Library will be closed on July 4. It will be open for normal business hours on Thursday, July 3, and Saturday, July 5. Trash, recycling and composting...
"Portals," a series of abstract paintings by Liz Hawkes deNiord, is now on exhibit at Putney Public Library, 55 Main St., through Dec. 2. "Liz's dynamic paintings reflect her immersion in the physical process as well as her love of saturated, radiant color and luminosity," the library said in a news release. "The paintings are both dreamlike and grounded. Her process is one of multiple layering, scraping, covering up, and building up heavily textured surfaces with palette knife and paint.
On Oct. 24, I was fired by the Vermont Department of corrections for having written a poem: Elegy to Gary Partridge. Partridge was a student of mine at Southern States Correctional Facility who died in September from an infection he had had for over a year. I hadn't published the elegy or shared it with the public in any way, but I read it to the prison's creative writing class, and that was enough. Certainly this begs the question: what...
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