What a lovely piece! It's so hard to make such a huge sacrifice, even when we know it's the best and right thing to do.
Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
In the five years since former Gov. Peter Shumlin devoted his State of the State address to heroin, opioids, and addiction, the state has ramped up its efforts to increase access to treatment for those struggling with substance-use disorders. Community members have stood before the Selectboard on multiple occasions concerned about the ramifications of the opioid crisis which have become visible throughout downtown. Finding success stories in the middle of a crisis is difficult, noted Police Chief Michael Fitzgerald, who...
Nye Ffarrabas will present selections from her more than 70 years of poetry and more than 60 years of visual, conceptual, and word art on Thursday, June 13, at 6 p.m. at CX Silver Gallery and Press, 814 Western Ave. Hosted by Cai Xi and Adam Silver as part of the Brattleboro Words Project's monthly Roundtable Discussions, the event is free and refreshments will be served. The discussion will focus on the intersection of poetry, event scores, and interactive word...
BRATTLEBORO-When I first heard of the horrific terrorist attacks on the music festival and peaceful bridge-building kibbutz communities on the Israel-Gaza border on Oct. 7, 2023, my gut reaction was the same as Malcolm X's upon learning of the assassination of John F. Kennedy: "The chickens have come home to roost." Malcolm X meant that the consequences of actions, especially harmful ones, eventually come back to haunt the perpetrator. Specifically, he was suggesting that violence and oppression inflicted by the...
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