BROOKLINE — A measure of a man is how he treats others.
It's nice to see the attention paid to the students and the respect to the teacher. We need more of this! Go Bernie!
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...
My guest, Carolyn Partridge, is the Windham-3 state representative in the Vermont House, where she represents the towns of Windham, Grafton, Rockingham, Athens, and Brookline, as well as “a real small slice of North Westminster in what we lovingly call Gageville.” A member of the House since 1999, she has chaired what is now the House Committee on Agriculture and Forestry for 11 years. Partridge raises sheep on her small farm, spinning and dying yarn for retail sale. A longtime...
On Saturday, Sept. 23, Wardsboro Curtain Call presents a dance and concert with The Barnstormerz. Marvin Bentley (South Wardsboro) and Ned Phoenix (Townshend) play their original songs and tunes. Their fiddle, guitars, piano, organ, harmonica, and vocals groove in a variety of musical styles through a blues filter. They will feature Marvin's songs about Vermont and Ned's extraordinary improvised fiddling. The Barnstormerz will play two sets of music for free-form dancing. Their original dance music includes country, blues, swing, boogie-woogie,
More than 10 percent of the people in Vermont prisons are African American. Just 1 percent of people in Vermont are black. No other nation on earth incarcerates such a high percentage of its people. As of 2008, the USA had about 751 people in prison or jail for every 100,000 in population. “England's rate is 151; Germany's is 88; and Japan's is 63.” That's according to a 2008 New York Times article, and those numbers were virtually unchanged as...
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