DUMMERSTON — It's sad when you're a devoted employee for decades and when you leave it's no big thing to an employer.
People wonder why no one wants to work at one place for long.
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...
The Turner family had a name for their hardscrabble Grafton homestead, and that name reflected a long journey from slavery to freedom. “The home place was named 'Journey's End,' 'cause father never wanted to go no further after he got up there on that hilltop,” recalled Daisy Turner, whose parents founded the farm in the early 1870s. The Turner family's tale survives because of Daisy's prodigious and well-documented gifts as a storyteller. But their mountaintop home has been mostly reclaimed...
I had a conversation with my son recently. “So, what projects are you doing today at school?” I asked him. “What?” he responded. “Projects at school,” I repeated. “What at school?” “Projects!” Finally, frustrated, he blurted, “I can't hear!” “Pro-jects!” I screamed. “Oh - projects,” my son said. That conversation occurred as we biked to school along Western Avenue through one of those gorgeous wintery-mix mornings. My son doesn't have a hearing problem (except when we ask him to clean...
LATCHfest, a two-day showcase of local music, performers, and video art, returns to the Latchis Theatre on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 1 and 2. A homegrown music and arts festival, LATCHfest promotes and celebrates Brattleboro's sonic scene with 10 local bands offering an array of sounds and styles. Music on Friday, Sept. 1, runs from 8 to 11 p.m., in the Latchis Underground (enter on Flat Street). The festival continues Saturday, Sept. 2, in the Latchis Main Theatre from 4:30...
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