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?
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
When Brattleboro Union High School rang in the Happy Days of 1950 with a new team nickname, the local newspaper warned that fans might face a potential hiccup. “The one fear of the student body in choosing 'Colonels' is that some sports-writing sharpshooter will make with the levity and call the B.H.S. athletes the Korny Kernels,” the Brattleboro Reformer wrote at the time. Few would foresee the name sparking a Civil War of sharper words. The Colonel moniker, unveiled to...
BRATTLEBORO-Under the Maple/Brattleboro House Concerts will host a benefit concert for RiverJam Romp on Sunday, June 23, at 6:30 p.m. The concert will feature Peter Siegel, Amanda Witman, and friends. Peter Siegel is an award-winning musician, educator, and founding member of The Gaslight Tinkers. Influenced by the songwriting of Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs, Dixieland, old-time fiddle tunes, and Afro-Caribbean rhythms, Siegel grew up singing on the Hudson River sloop Clearwater. He moved to the Pioneer Valley as a young...
The Retreat Trails in the Retreat Woods are at a crossroads. The new Retreat Farm nonprofit owns five Retreat Trails from four trailheads accessing the many, central Retreat Trails owned by the Brattleboro Retreat. The Lower and Upper Woodlands Trails from the Neighborhood Schoolhouse/Solar Hill trailhead access the central Retreat Trails from Western Avenue. When the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps recently maintained these narrow, steep trails, the crew leader, an avid mountain biker, decided to modify the Upper Woodlands Trail...
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