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.
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...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
The road less traveled - a reference to Robert Frost's poem The Road Not Taken - served as a theme that accompanied Kevin F.F. Quigley as he took the helm this past weekend as the ninth president of Marlboro College. Over three days, the college celebrated the inauguration of Quigley, who took over from Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, the college's president for 11 years. The inauguration weekend kicked off Sept. 11 with an afternoon of service, with approximately 80 students and staff...
Brattleboro's Last Night Committee presents a fun-filled, substance-free day of celebration on New Year's Eve, Wednesday, Dec. 31. The day kicks off with a senior potluck luncheon at the Brattleboro Senior Center from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., featuring The New Year's End Trio. From noon to 4 p.m., KidsPLAYce holds a free Toddler and Pre-School Celebration! For more information, call 802-254-5212. From 1 to 4 p.m., enjoy sleigh and hay rides at Fairwinds Farm on Upper Dummerston Road. No...
My most harrowing camp story does not involve bears or bugs or bad weather. Instead, it was a surreal journey in search of dessert, a journey that brought me to a small-town general store where black is white, up is down, and pies are not for sale. This was July 2014, and 10 of us were camping out at Ricker Pond State Park in Groton. The weather was perfect all week, and we had hiked and swum and paddled ourselves...
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