BRATTLEBORO — I hope we can encourage Opal Robinson to get back into her writing or her art - it is therapeutic.
My hope is that the bullying in the local schools will somehow be stopped.
So glad she's home safe. Good luck to her and the family.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
After the position has been vacant for 18 months, the town has hired Louis Bordeaux as its new town manager, effective last week. A resident of Bernardston, Massachusetts, Bordeaux has worked in local government for just over a decade. Prior to that, he had a long career in mid- and upper-level retail management. Bordeaux said that he got into politics at the urging of a friend in 2012, when a three-year seat on the Bernardston Selectboard opened up. He ran...
The Wardsboro Public Library's Artist of the Month exhibition for features works by Alison Williams. Williams is originally from Cheltenham, England, and grew up in Havant, England, and Campbeltown, Scotland. It was in Scotland where she met her husband, Warren Williams, when he was stationed with the Marine Corps at what was then known as RAF Machrihanish, an air base at the tip of Kintyre. Williams came to the United States in 1979 with her husband when he was reassigned...
The writer is the local organizer of NALC Branch 37. BRATTLEBORO-On Sunday, March 23, a Protect USPS from Privatization Rally will take place at 3 p.m. at the Brattleboro Main Post Office, 204 Main St., hosted by Branch 37 of the National Association of Letter Carriers, in coordination with NALC branches nationwide. Our United States Postal Service is enshrined in Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, in which Congress is given the task of "establish[ing] post offices and post roads."
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