Recent stories:
• Economic problems in southern Vermont - lack of jobs, etc.
• Opposition to Justice Center in Bellows Falls.
• Opposition to gas plant in Vernon.
• Opposition to wind power plant.
Gee, can there be a connection here?
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...
Charlotte Bishop was standing at her kitchen window in January 2019 when she saw water streaming into her yard. A block of ice had clogged the brook that snakes around the mobile home park where she and her husband Rollin live. Bishop grabbed her keys and rushed outside to move their cars to higher ground. Within minutes, she was wading through knee-high water. Bishop lives in Tri-Park Cooperative in Brattleboro, Vermont's largest and oldest resident-owned mobile home community. The co-op...
The Putney Public Library, 55 Main St., invites everyone to view oil paintings on paper by Susan McDormand, now on exhibit through Dec. 28 during library hours and special events, free and open to the public. In a news release, McDormand said her interest in oil painting began about 20 years ago when she took classes at the River Gallery School in Brattleboro. Both Ric Campman, one of the founders of the school, and Lydia Thomson encouraged her to continue.
As is our custom, we have attempted to gather an avalanche of recent candidate endorsement and election letters into a special primary election Voices section. Recent events in the world have delayed our publication, and we hope that with approximately a month left before Election Day, it's just in time for voters who are still mulling over their options. In-person voting for the Vermont statewide primary election will take place on Tuesday, Aug. 9, with polls opening no later than...
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