BRATTLEBORO — Thank you for documenting Bill Guay's effect on us.
A memorial is being planned for Mon., Feb. 15 at 10 a.m. at the First Baptist Church, 190 Main St., Brattleboro.
Tristan Roberts ([email protected]) is a former state representative, a small-scale farmer, and a writer who...
BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...
BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...
SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...
Nearly a year ago, community leaders gathered in the Cotton Mill for an event launching southern Vermont's efforts to welcome and resettle more than 100 evacuees from Afghanistan. These evacuees fled their homeland in August 2021 with the collapse of the Kabul-based Afghan government and the subsequent takeover of the country by the Taliban. They eventually ended up in Vermont at the beginning of this year, with the campus of the SIT/World Learning in Brattleboro as their first stop. Weeks...
Company of Muses recently announced that Ellery Witman of Brattleboro has received the nonprofit scholarship organization's first Colleen McCloskey-Meyer Ballet Scholarship. Witman has been studying ballet at Brattleboro School of Dance (BSD) since 2012. She has spent countless hours training in class and performing onstage, first as a member of the school's Junior Dance Company and now as an apprentice to the Senior Dance Company, as well as a student demonstrator and student teacher. Over the past six years, Witman...
BRATTLEBORO-Why is it so difficult to grasp that support for innocent people suffering in Palestine does not equate to support of Hamas, nor does criticism of the Netanyahu government equate to antisemitism? The right wing in both Israel and the U.S. have exploited with great success our apparent inability to make these distinctions. Now the Trump administration is using this lack of critical thinking to suppress free speech and promote fear, by threatening and deporting students who have exercised what...
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