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.
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Voters chose numbers over letters at Monday night's Town Meeting. Despite the Vernon Public Library Board of Trustees' pleas to leave the budget alone, enough townspeople agreed with the Selectboard's claim that Vernon can't afford the library it currently has. Rejecting a petition from Library Director Kris Berberian, voters affirmed a library budget of $70,000 for fiscal year 2018. This represents a 38 percent reduction from fiscal 2017's budget. In December, after the Selectboard approved the $70,000 budget, Berberian successfully...
New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA), one of the most comprehensive circus arts schools in the United States, is reopening to the public on June 29 after three months of closure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Local enrollment in the school's summer session is open for registration with aerial and acrobatic classes for beginner through advanced students. Students will rejoin small group activities with classes that are in-person while physically distanced. NECCA typically offers more than 50 recreational...
What first drew me to Molly Gray was learning that she grew up on a vegetable and dairy farm in rural Vermont and that she found herself working to better others' livelihoods around the globe. She has instilled in her the knowledge and awareness of what “it takes a village” means and harnesses that to join with her neighbors to reach collective goals. You have to understand teamwork and the power of community to achieve the best for all. Thankfully,
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