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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Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
Todd. Danny. Damien. Brianna. William. Ronnie. These were the names of people who experienced homelessness in and around Brattleboro - and died before they could be fully helped. Their last names were left unspoken, to respect their privacy. These people, and others unnamed who, in the words of the Rev. Lise Sparrow of the Guilford Community Church, were “lost to the mists of mental illness, of addiction, of poverty,” were remembered at the annual Homelessness Awareness Day and Memorial Vigil...
The Ax Wound Film Festival is back with an expanded roster of thrilling and mind-expanding horror films from women filmmakers across the globe. This year, AWFF will offer two days of more than 40 short films, a filmmaker-in-attendance Q&A, and engaging presentations from leading women horror writers, artists, and directors, all at the Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery in downtown Brattleboro, beginning Friday, Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m., with a filmmaker reception followed by the first round of shorts at 8...
The sigh of relief was heard resoundingly worldwide. After almost a week of nail-biting anxiety, a majority of Americans elected new leadership that we could trust to pull us back from the brink. Suddenly, it no longer felt like the Earth had rolled off its axis and was tilting dangerously to the right. As people gathered in front of the White House and in streets across the country, dancing, hooting, weeping, it became clear that individually and together we had...
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