BRATTLEBORO — The most beautifully written opinion I have yet to read on this subject. Thank you for sharing your voice, Enza Putignano.
To deny our children and families choices for how we can all achieve optimal health - even here in rural Vermont - is surely condemning them to a life shackled by fascist corporatism.
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...
Members of the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) plan to include two students for one-year terms each on the school board going forward. Brattleboro representative Lana Dever said at the April 12 meeting that the process to develop a proposal to do so was “very collaborative” among all board members and school administrators. “We look forward to working with the [Brattleboro Union High School] administration as we implement this initiative,” Dever said. “This is something that is long coming and...
I am surprised frequently when Republicans decry cooperative and supportive government as a “nanny state” and Democrats do not respond with resonant language. This has not always been the case. Theodore Roosevelt was unafraid to call out captains of capitalism as “malefactors of great wealth,” and his cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, lambasted the “economic royalists” of his day. It would be fair to say the ideal of our Republican brethren today is a “predatory society.” The economic guiding principle of...
Next Stage Arts, 15 Kimball Hill, presents a double bill featuring the reimagined historic spirituals and hymns of Walter Parks & The Unlawful Assembly, and the "guitar noir/crime jazz" of Big Lazy, on Friday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m. "Walter's work with Richie Havens has informed a lot of his career, and he has become an educator on the history of blues, roots, and Americana. The pairing with Big Lazy is an evening of music that won't be easily forgotten,"
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