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 Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
“He was covered in ticks and, worse, he was just fur and bones,” said Cassandra Holloway. “I had no idea how long he had been there” On July 4, when Holloway found Farmer by the porch of her mother's house in West Townshend, it had been months since she had last seen the Border Collie/Bernese mix. Though he had wagged his tail and barked in happy recognition, Holloway remembers that for her, that Independence Day was filled with mixed emotions.
118 Gallery welcomes painter Stephen Redmond for the month of April. His show at 118, “Sarasota Incognita,” brings together many of the paintings from Redmond's years working in Florida. There will be an opening reception April 5, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Otherwise, the gallery is open on Saturdays from noon to 4 p.m., and by appointment. Redmond began to paint in 1989, at the age of 40. Within a year, he had designed and begun construction of a 32-foot...
BRATTLEBORO-As local and global understanding of Israeli genocide against Palestinians has grown over the past eight months, and opposition to the actions of Israel builds, there have been many words printed in these pages expressing a feeling of Jewish unsafety. One writer objects to hearing the term "the Zionist project" - a term long used by historians to describe the modern political and demographic movement that created the Jewish-majority state of Israel - as antisemitic, and somehow "trickling down" to...
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