BRATTLEBORO — It's a sad day when a writer loses a job. I hope Pat Smith and Mike Fahar find meaningful work that will continue to contribute to their community.
Rick Gordon was the founding director of the Compass School, which operated in Westminster from...
BRATTLEBORO-Have you been to 69A Elliot St. yet? Please stop in soon! It's such a...
BRATTLEBORO-I am a Connecticut-born Yankee American, second-generation Irish immigrant, raised-Catholic, 62-year-old woman working in Brattleboro.
DUMMERSTON-Without wanting to validate Trump's demonization of America's shockingly large homeless population, I would like...
The Scott administration and the Legislature are busy building the state budget, helped by an injection of federal COVID-19 relief funds that has staved off the pandemic's more-bitter economic consequences. But while that $210 million boost is new, most of Vermont's economic problems are not. The stakes are high for many Vermont households. How lawmakers and the administration decide to invest this new funding could change how individual Vermonters recover economically - or whether they continue to struggle as many...
The Catherine Dianich Gallery is currently aglow with the paintings of Gilbert “Gib” Taylor, a longtime and much-loved teacher at Marlboro College who died in 2006. Taylor, born in 1929 and raised on Deer Isle, Maine, attended Harvard University and the Art Students League and, after serving in Germany during the Korean War, went to the American School of Art in New York on the GI Bill. He lived in New York for 10 years, his “painting adolescence” as he...
BRATTLEBORO-As we are engaged with the urgency of the political drama unfolding in real time, I remember someone who was instrumental in the events that led up to an earlier Constitutional crisis a half century ago. Randy Kehler recently passed away at the age of 80 after a long illness. He was the anti-war activist who inspired Daniel Ellsberg to release the Pentagon Papers, leading to the end of the Vietnam war, and less directly to the resignation of President...
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