VERNON — Well, it sounds like a variation of the proverbial “you reap what you sow,” only in this case, Windham County will reap what those in Montpelier and elsewhere have sown.
Just remember: I told you so.
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
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“It passed!” cried a jubilant Dick DeGray, his voice echoing in the nearly empty Brattleboro Union High School gym. Brattleboro voters approved enacting a 1-percent sales tax in a town-wide vote on Tuesday. The non-binding article passed by 36 votes. The town intends to use the estimated $660,000 the tax would raise toward lowering the town property tax rate. During his time on the Selectboard, DeGray, a former board chair, made multiple attempts to pass the 1-percent tax. Town Meeting...
BRATTLEBORO-Juno Orchestra presents "Context: Six Centuries," on Sunday, Feb. 2, at 2:30 p.m. at the Brattleboro Music Center (BMC). Juno Music Director Zon Eastes explained in a news release that the concert will feature works from six centuries that may share similar formal structures, texts, or intentions, though each is singular and commanding on its own. For example, Eastes has chosen two settings of a revered Latin text, O Magnum Mysterium, by composers living 500 years apart, one from the...
The thought of Becca Balint representing us in Congress fills me with bucketloads of hope. I honestly can't imagine anyone more prepared to show up and fight for us all, whether it's taking care of the needs of working families or protecting democracy itself. Readers of her newspaper column in the Brattleboro Reformer will know that no matter how frenzied the political process, every week Becca could be counted on to rise above the fray, reflect deeply on issues that...
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