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.
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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DOVER-When your money comes from fossil fuels, the last thing you want is a state trying to go "net zero," or fossil fuel free. That is why a network of political nonprofits funded by the Koch family acts all over the United States to protect its fossil fuel interests from things like heat pumps, solar panels, and greenhouse gas emissions controls. Koch Industries Inc. is the second largest privately owned company in the United States, according to Forbes, As described...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) exhibit “All Flowers Keep the Light” - on view through Sunday, June 13 - was postponed for nearly a year because of the pandemic. Initially conceived as an exploration of artwork harnessing the beauty and symbolic potential of flowers to mark personal loss, it was expanded to include work commemorating communal and societal ruptures. Curated by BMAC Chief Curator Mara Williams, “All Flowers Keep the Light” draws its title from a line in...
We celebrate Vermont's dairy industry for many reasons. We know that dairy brings in $2.2 billion to the state's economy and accounts for 70 percent of agricultural sales. Jobs - 6,000 to 7,000 of them - in our state depend on dairy. In addition, New England depends on the state's milk production, with 63 percent of the region's supply coming from farms in Vermont. The commercial dairy industry in Vermont did not begin until the demise of the world-renowned Merino...
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