BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro has been fortunate to have Jerry Carbone, a leader and gentleman, at the helm of its library.
Now for his golf game: perhaps a little more time devoted to the game will pick things up a bit.
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...
Elected Town Meeting representatives spurned a call to feed themselves a $2,500 tax-funded lunch. But that didn't stop them from spending 12 hours on March 19 chewing over $20 million in municipal matters. “Democracy is messy, and it can be frustrating,” Prudence MacKinney, vice chair of the Planning Commission, told a Zoom audience at the start of Vermont's only state-sanctioned virtual Town Meeting. “It takes time and effort to work well.” It also requires fuel, according to a Town Meeting...
I read about the homeless “revolution” and protest proposed by one James Douglas. Douglas is upset that he was told to leave a park after hours. The same would be told to any citizen - homeless or not - who is in any public park or space after hours. Douglas states over and over he will not comply with any “orders” even if he does receive help. Yet he wishes to demand the non-homeless in Brattleboro treat him with “respect...
In recognition of World Alzheimer's Day, Thursday, Sept. 21, the Latchis Theatre will be a participating venue in the statewide premiere of the new documentary Keys Bags Names Words, a film directed by Cynthia Stone about people living with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias who share stories of heartbreak and hope in aging. Keys Bags Names Words will be screened at 7 p.m. Admission is free. The Alzheimer's Association Vermont Chapter, AARP of Vermont, Vermont Department of Health, Community of...
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