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!
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...
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Town Meeting Day always has a festive air about it at the Putney Central School gymnasium. The eighth-graders set up a table filled with homemade treats for sale as a fundraiser for their class trip. Information tables from the town library, the Conservation Commission, the Putney Foodshelf, and other nonprofits take up the outer edges of one half of the gym, right across from the voting booths. The other half of the gym, divided by a large curtain, is devoted...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will present an animal mask-making workshop with UNH art instructor and artist Sachiko Akiyama and Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center (BEEC) naturalist Patti Smith on Saturday, April 30, from 2 to 5 p.m. at the River Gallery School in Brattleboro. Smith will talk briefly at the start of the workshop about animals in the local area who are at risk, largely due to climate change. Akiyama will then lead participants in making animal masks,
Sometimes in the mirror - especially first thing in the morning, clear-eyed - I see my father's face. It can be a flash of an expression, the look around the eyes, the shape of the mouth or cheek, a twisting of the lips. There he is. It's not a pleasant experience, looking in the mirror. The punch-in-the-gut feeling starts low and deep and ends up almost strangling me in its violence. At one point, the mixture of disgust and despair...
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