WEST BRATTLEBORO — Beautifully written! It's easy to lose sight of the ones we do help when we focus our hearts on the ones we can't.
Charles F. Monette is a poet, teacher, playwright, artist, actor, builder, and U.S. Army veteran.
Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. WESTMINSTER-Democrats in the state Legislature scored some...
Fric Spruyt represents District 9 in Brattleboro's Representative Town Meeting. BRATTLEBORO-At the July 8 Brattleboro...
Jim Freedman is a leadership consultant and the author of Becoming a Leader: Identity, Influence,
In what he called “in a way, not a difficult decision but a sad one,” State Rep. Nader Hashim, citing economic pressures, has announced that he will not seek reelection as one of the two lawmakers representing the Windham-4 district in Montpelier. In an announcement released on Facebook on Monday, the first-term Democrat said that he and family members have experienced the abrupt and unanticipated economic crunch that has accompanied the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. As a response, political newcomer Michelle...
From Abenaki petroglyphs and the first known African American poet, Lucy Terry Prince, to Nobel Laureates like Saul Bellow, Jody Williams, Rudyard Kipling, and a pantheon of colorful characters along the way, writers and the words they have written have shaped the Brattleboro area into something special. Now, a product of a multi-year National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) backed exploration of People, Places and History of Words in Brattleboro, Vermont offers a new way to make these creators' stories...
In 2004, then–New York Senator Hillary Clinton rang the opening bell at the New York Mercantile Exchange, the world's reigning energy market. When she arrived at the trading floor, the traders unabashedly booed her. “It wasn't because they hate Democrats,” a young man who worked in the trading pits, Ben Kaufman, told me at the time. “A lot of the traders are Democrats. They just hated her. The exchange apologized and forced all the traders to do it over again...
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