BRATTLEBORO — The woman you profiled in this piece is brave to share her story. She shows resilience in her comments about wanting to help others.
Hopefully, more help will be available to her from the people who know her and hear about her.
We should all keep our eyes and ears open to what is going on with people around us. Homelessness is a community problem, a social problem, a political problem. And we are all part of the solution.
Leslie Zucker is a certified professional life coach, a facilitator of a women's group, and...
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block,
Kerry Secrest serves as honorary consul of Lithuania to Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-A heartfelt thank you to...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes...
Good day to you, hearty and heart-full New Englanders! After our light to moderate snowfall this past weekend, we have entered a fair, but cold, wintry pattern as a large trough slowly passes west to east through southeastern Canada. This has allowed unseasonably cold temperatures to visit our hills and dales, and this will last through Friday and begin to ease on Saturday. Aside from some scattered snow showers Wednesday afternoon and evening, we are essentially cold and dry through...
Talk about laboring in obscurity! Last week, I found myself discussing a $3.4 million gift that Brattleboro had received. When should we spend it? What should we spend it on? And who should decide? That's when we got hung up for a good 20 minutes on the finer points of jurisdiction within the town government. Also, the finer points of pickleball. Nope, it doesn't get wonkier or weirder than the meetings of the Representative Town Meeting Finance Committee. I often...
Emily Mason, the noted New York abstract painter and longtime half-year resident of West Brattleboro, is presenting a show of monoprints and monotypes at Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts on Main Street, up until Jan. 7. The works, 40 of them, are basically paintings painted on a separate plate and then transferred to paper by running it through an etching press. There are often many layers, and the techniques have many elaborations. The gallery staff does quite a good job explaining how...
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