PUTNEY — Thank you, Joyce Marcel, for this wonderfully written and accurate tribute to my mother.
Lindsey Britt is a textile artist, solution-finder, award-winning vegan baker, and nonprofit administrator who serves...
Tim Hayes is retired as a junior high school teacher at Marlboro School, where he...
Bert Picard is an activist, having retired as a Teamster truck driver who has organized...
The writer is the local organizer of NALC Branch 37. BRATTLEBORO-On Sunday, March 23, a...
Those planning the expansion of the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center expect to increase the number of visitors downtown - substantially. “Our current expectation,” said Danny Litchtenfeld, the museum's executive director, “is that our annual attendance will double - from 16,000 today to roughly 35,000 - when this transformation is complete.” While these numbers are early estimates, Litchtenfeld said that they're based on the experience of museum expansion projects in other New England communities, such as the Massachusetts Museum of...
The community is invited to hear stories written by Palestinians at two upcoming events. Vermonter actors and other readers will present Gaza Monologues: Testimonies Written by Youth From Gaza, Saturday, Dec. 7, at Sandglass Theater in Putney and on Saturday, Dec. 21, at New England Youth Theatre in Brattleboro. Addie Mahdavi, one of the organizers of the two events, writes in a news release, "Americans don't get a full or accurate picture of what the people of Gaza are experiencing,"
To the people of Windham County: There is an old saying: “Culture eats policy for breakfast.” I'm proud and pleased that the culture at the Windham County Sheriff's Office for over a decade has been to embrace humanity, including around issues such as equity, implicit and explicit bias, and fair and impartial policing. Our department's mission is to provide effective, ethical, and affordable policing. We have championed a model of community policing which embraces the need for the public to...
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