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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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...
A resident of Morningside House shelter was held without bail after pleading not guilty to a first-degree murder charge in the gruesome April 3 death of the facility's coordinator, Leah Rosin-Pritchard. Zaaina Asra Zakirrah Mahvish-Jammeh, 38, was ordered Tuesday to receive a mental health evaluation. Prosecutors allege that she bought a hunting hatchet during the weekend and used it to take the life of Rosin-Pritchard, 36. “She is a danger to others and potentially to herself,” Judge Katherine Hayes said...
Visual artist and musician Roger Miller is bringing Surrealist Games to 118 Elliot for a return visit to Brattleboro. Two years ago, Miller presented the event at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, which allowed attendees to create art, not just look at it. The reaction from participants was overwhelmingly positive. Vaune Trachtman said she loved that it was “non-competitive fun. Everyone's a winner!” Rolf Parker described the evening as “awesome,” and the highlight for Ely Coughlin was “laughing so...
WESTMINSTER-I have known Michelle Bos-Lun since I moved to Westminster seven years ago and joined a writing group of which she was a member. Immediately, I was impressed with her commitment to service and to helping others. She wrote beautifully about her work with students in Taiwan and Iraq through State Department exchanges. Then, as I got to know her, I learned that she has also taught English to asylum seekers and supported schools in India. In these and other...
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