TOWNSHEND — If you were at the Bellows Falls Village Meeting, it was obvious the 2-to-1 margin of the budget vote was all firefighters who voted that budget back in - and only a handful of citizens.
Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
The pending closure of a Bellows Falls medical products company means lost jobs and tax revenue for the region. Vermed's reported departure also represents a black eye for the Windham County Economic Development Program: Just two years ago, the company received $200,000 from that fund as part of an incentive package to grow in Vermont. Officials are smarting from the blow, since the economic development program is fueled by a Vermont Yankee shutdown settlement and is supposed to help the...
After more than a year of mostly online events, the creative professionals at Sandglass Theater are “eager to get back to teaching and to sharing the experiences of training and creating new work with people who are interested in the unique art form of puppet theater.” In a news release, Sandglass says its Summer Intensive Training “has historically been a meeting place among people from different countries, different ages, and different experiences in life and in art.” This summer, the...
MARLBORO-In February, an asylum seeker family was detained by Customs & Border Patrol near the Vermont-Canada border. After 30 hours' detention with little to eat or drink and nowhere to sleep, the wife and three small children were released. The husband was held for more than a month in Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody despite his and his family's asylum case being in process. This story is frightening immigrants across Vermont. Individuals persecuted in their own countries based on...
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