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.
Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, Mollie Burke, Michael Mrowicki, and Zon Eastes are state representatives; Nader...
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
Drug deals, panhandlers, burglaries, vandalism, and a carjacking at the Transportation Center brought residents to a recent Selectboard meeting, demanding action and answers. “The people in the community are asking for your help and it doesn't happen,” former board member and chair Dick DeGray told the board at its May 16 meeting, two days after the parking garage incident. The board in recent years has shown “so much inactivity” on the crime issue, DeGray said, adding that he'd come before...
During November, the Crowell Gallery at Moore Free Library, 23 West St., hosts the wildlife photography of Dara Carleton in an exhibit she calls “The Peace of Wild Things” after the Wendell Berry poem of the same name. Carleton will be on hand at the gallery on Thursday, Nov. 5 and Thursday, Nov. 19, from 1 to 3 p.m., to talk about her photos, taken at local lakes and streams from her kayak. Her work offers a glimpse into the...
My relationship with Brattleboro and its daily newspaper, the Reformer, and its weekly paper, The Commons, has been a complicated one. Norm Runnion, the now-legendary managing editor of the Reformer hired me in February 1989 to fill a vacancy in the sports department with the retirement of longtime sports editor Ken Campbell. I had only one year of working with Norm, but it was a year that I treasure. The Reformer was hitting on all cylinders then, with a talented...
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