BRATTLEBORO — Thank you for having ears for this story, and the wherewithal to share it with us all.
We are headed into what seems to be a hard winter in a land of hard winters. We have to talk about the homeless in our midst.
And do something.
Tristan Roberts ([email protected]) is a former state representative, a small-scale farmer, and a writer who...
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When the new state Legislature starts work in January, it will do so with an unprecedented number of women in key leadership positions, including two from Windham County: Becca Balint of Brattleboro and Emily Long of Newfane. Balint will serve as president pro tempore of the Senate, where she represents Windham County, and Long, who represents the Windham-5 district (Marlboro, Newfane, and Townshend), will be the House majority leader. Both Balint and Long were voted into their respective posts by...
The Windham Regional Commission (WRC) has collaborated with Vermont landscape painter Kathleen Kolb and Vermont poet and performer Verandah Porche to create a singularly beautiful 17-picture and poetry exhibit about the working forest for the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center (BMAC). The exhibit, called Shedding Light on the Working Forest, is opening at the museum on Oct. 2 and will run until Jan. 3, 2016. It combines Kolb's paintings of men working in the forests and in the mills with...
A lot of people now distrust the press. It has little to do with what Trump says and more to do with the press and what it chooses to report and chooses to ignore. Rosanne Barr was fired from her TV show for comparing Valerie Jarrett to an ape, yet Bill Maher was not fired for asking if Donald Trump was related to an orangutan, nor was he attacked or fired for being homophobic when he vividly suggested Trump and...
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