It's about time! I've had enough of institutions like the Brattleboro Retreat stealing our hard-earned tax dollars in the name of “mental health.”
We should all applaud whistleblower Thomas Joseph and anyone like him. Well done!
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...
BRATTLEBORO-There have been highs, there have been lows, and then there was the Democratic National Convention. "Ebullient" would be the best word to describe Vermont U.S. Rep. Becca Balint going into the event, which was held in Chicago from Aug. 19 to 22 to formally nominate Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the Democrats' candidates in the November election. "It felt like the roof was being blown off the top of the convention center by the...
On Friday, Sept. 22, at 8 p.m., the downtown nonprofit arts center Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St., presents Ben Model performing a live musical score on the historic Estey organ to the silent film The Man Who Laughs. Model is an organist who regularly performs musical accompaniment to silent films at MOMA and the Library of Congress. He is one of the top 20 most-celebrated silent film accompanists in the United States, and Epsilon Spires organizers say they are "honored...
If you were at the supermarket with your 6-year-old child, and you saw them take a candy bar off of the rack and start to eat it, would you simply shrug and pretend you didn't notice? Or would you stop them and explain why that is wrong? And would you love them any less for their mistake? And if that same child started picking on the neighbor kids, making them cry by taking their toys and being physically aggressive, would...
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