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...
Good day to you, southern Vermonters! We are in the process of having a cold front stall out to our south near the southern New England coastline. This boundary will continue to produce the chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms from Wednesday, through Wednesday night, and ending around sunset on Thursday evening. It will be quite humid during this period with dew point temperatures in the 60s to near 70 degrees. Even though we will enjoy more sunshine Friday through...
On Friday, Dec. 10, the Brattleboro Literary Festival concludes its 20th anniversary year with a Literary Cocktail Hour at 5 p.m., featuring award-winning novelist Ruth Ozeki. Register for the free online event at bit.ly/LitCocktail14. Ozeki will discuss her new book, The Book of Form and Emptiness, with local writer Stephanie Greene. The book tells the story of 13-year-old Benny Oh who, one year after the death of his beloved musician father, begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the...
Batterers are opportunistic in finding ways to control their partner, so it's no surprise that household pets, too, might be targets for harm. Abusers often direct their violence at anyone or anything a victim loves, whether to coerce her while she's still in the relationship or to punish her for getting out. For many women, this violence or threat presents an added barrier to leaving, unless there's a safe haven for their pets, too. About a third of survivors have...
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