MARLBORO — Thank you, Amy Comerchero! We've been sooooo lucky.
Enjoy a good rest, and then we'll look forward to what's next for you - and our tummies.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
BRATTLEBORO-What a depressing time to celebrate Independence Day, as No. 47 and his obedient and...
Sarah Ellis is a writer and mental health advocate who grew up in Brattleboro and...
BRATTLEBORO-Analysis of Brattleboro's Charter Revision Survey reveals growing dissatisfaction with the current Representative Town Meeting...
A lot of babies have been welcomed, a lot of humorous stories recounted, and a lot of memories made as Dr. Robert Backus, the ultimate country doctor, gets ready to retire on March 9. For nearly 40 years, Backus has been the mainstay - some would say the emblem - of Townshend's treasured Grace Cottage Hospital. One patient describes how his father died at 2 a.m. and “Dr. B” was at the house an hour later to comfort his mother.
On Sunday, Dec. 21, Simba continues its 25th year of playing together by celebrating the winter solstice. The annual music and dance party takes place at 7 p.m. at the Evening Star Grange in Dummerston Center. Join the band and your friends and neighbors in dance to light up the year's longest night. The band started by playing a 1989 benefit on the Brattleboro Common to shut down Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant; they called themselves the No Nukes Band.
When I saw Molly Osowski's long, thoughtful, and achingly beautiful post on Facebook in March, I knew I was reading something special. It was a voice from someone from the region who was writing clearly and from the heart about a problem that is alternatively ignored and talked to death - heroin. We have published pieces in these pages from young people who have struggled with addiction, but this Viewpoint was something new. It was from a sober young woman...
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