The only thing I don't believe, Susan Odegard, is that you are not an accomplished person. Wow - you have found beauty in yourself and the world and have articulated it so well.
Thanks for this gift of an article.
Emily Hallock is a patient care technician at Brattleboro Retreat. She originally posted this piece...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-Free the drugs. I suggest the state of Vermont offers free drugs administered by...
PUTNEY-The Jim Jeffords ("I didn't leave the party, the party left me") solution: The U.S.
MIDDLEBURY-CCM Holland Mills' letter itself is filled with untrue statements and harmful rhetoric, which I,
“Can you hear me?” That phrase dominated on Saturday as more than 100 meeting members and officials navigated the town's first virtual Annual Representative Town Meeting (ARTM), which approved all 19 warned articles over 13 hours as well as a few non-binding articles designated as “other business.” While the members completed their business - which included renewing funding for a marketing campaign, funding human-services organizations, and buying a new firetruck - the group's conversations also highlighted some of the town's...
I really don't know whose terrible idea it was. There was no chance I would ever be accepted into Middlebury, Colby, Smith, or Wellesley. If it was my idea, I wish there'd been someone around who'd known the ins and outs of need-blind admissions and could have saved my parents the application fees. I was an engaged student in high school. Our school in Maine was small - a little under 300 students. Parents in the area scraped out a...
Visual artist, graffiti scholar, and educator Will Kasso Condry of Brandon has been selected as the first recipient of The Vermont Prize, a new endeavor aimed at celebrating and supporting the best visual art being made in Vermont today. A collaborative initiative of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC), Burlington City Arts (BCA), The Current, and the Hall Art Foundation, The Vermont Prize is juried by one representative from each of the four partner organizations and one special guest...
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