BRATTLEBORO — Don't believe that Senator Jeanette White didn't understand that the Senate's marijuana legalization bill got transformed into a sellout to corporate interests.
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Django Grace describes himself as an environmentalist, skier, chiller, and lifelong Brattleborian. He graduated from...
Chloe Learey is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development...
WESTMINSTER WEST-My recent essay in The Commons revealed the unique position of Vermont as a...
Roger Allbee served as secretary of agriculture, farms, and markets for Vermont in the administration...
BELLOWS FALLS-On this Saturday, the 250th anniversary of two early Massachusetts battles that irrevocably advanced the Revolutionary War, approximately 500 people gathered in downtown Bellows Falls, where for two hours they sang, chanted, and carried signs along both sides of Westminster Street from Henry Street down into the Square. "This is what democracy looks like," local poet Erica Bowman said when she spoke to the crowd on April 19. People came and went during the two-hour event, but an unofficial...
BRATTLEBORO-"Prepare for lift-off!" said organizers of The Bandwagon Summer Series in a news release announcing the "cosmic voyage" led by Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber. The event takes place at West River Park on Route 30 on Sunday, June 8, at 6 p.m. Founded by Greg Tate and rooted in the improvisation of Butch Morris, Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber (BSAC) "is a sonic adventure machine," organizers said. The group's sound blends funk, jazz, rock, hip-hop, and Afro-futurist soundscapes. This...
College campuses with swastikas on the sidewalks and in bathroom stalls. A white woman verbally abusing two Latinx women for speaking Spanish in a public space. A group of white racists destroying a Black child's birthday party. A Black woman is shot and killed by a police officer while playing video games with her nephew in her own home. Former State Rep. Kiah Morris being harassed out of the Legislature in our very own state by a racist monster who...
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