Congratulations, Starr LaTronica! Brooks Memorial Library is very lucky.
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...
In some Vermont towns, old landfills have become hot commodities. Spurred in part by the state's new net-metering rules, solar developers are scrambling to build photovoltaic arrays on closed, capped landfills that previously had been considered useless for development. The trend encompasses big arrays - such as a 5-megawatt project slated for Brattleboro's former landfill - as well as smaller arrays that can fit on more compact municipal dumps, like a planned project in Newfane. While there are engineering hurdles...
I strongly recommend that the good citizens of Brattleboro consider Daniel Quipp when they cast their ballots for Selectboard. Whether it' Washington, D.C., Montpelier, or our local Selectboards, we need representatives who have a good understanding of the growing climate crisis and who are not shy about speaking up about the need to take proactive steps to deal with it. Daniel has demonstrated his credentials on both counts. As a co-founder of the Brattleboro chapter of 350.org, the organization started...
The Brattleboro Literary Festival continues its 20th anniversary year with authors Kate Russo and Claire Lombardo participating in its next virtual Literary Cocktail Hour. Russo's novel Super Host is the story of Bennett Driscoll, a Turner Prize–nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now, at age 55, his wife has left him, he hasn't sold a painting in two years, and he hasn't been reviewed in five. His gallery wants to stop selling his work, claiming they'll have more...
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