Voices
Focus on Act 46
On towns’ options for school choice and the pressure for change
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...
“I just can't imagine that tomorrow I'm waking up and not coming to work,” Vlasta Popelka said to the friends and well-wishers at Brattleboro Community Television's annual meeting. In this time of COVID-19, the longtime operations manager's retirement party happened over videoconference. While the coronavirus might have kept people apart, it could not stop Popelka from receiving the deep, heartfelt gratitude for her 18 years of service to the local public-access television station. Colleagues formally bid her bon voyage with...
SOLOs Episode 7: Originals - a video montage of monologues and song by six area performers filmed by Brattleboro Community Television - premieres simultaneously on BCTV and on YouTube Friday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. The free opening is capped with an online session at 8:15 p.m., where audience members can chat with cast, directors, producers, and technical staff. Each episode of SOLOs is a co-production of the Rock River Players (RRP) and the Hooker-Dunham Theater (H-D), filmed on the...
Having moved back to Brattleboro recently, I am feeling helpless about the serious homelessness crisis. I know I am not alone in this. In talking with Libby Bennett, director of development and communications at Groundworks Collaborative, she explained that Groundworks - which includes the Foodworks food shelf program and many more services - is only funded by government grants for roughly 65%, and the other 35% comes from fundraising with some small grants, occasionally. Although we live in a generous...
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