SAXTONS RIVER — It has been my experience that the Saxtons River Village Trustees do pretty much what they want and to heck with the residents. If you offer to help out, it is clearly stated that they don't want the help, nor do they want any input.
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Leslie Zucker is a certified professional life coach, a facilitator of a women's group, and...
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block,
Kerry Secrest serves as honorary consul of Lithuania to Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-A heartfelt thank you to...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes...
Officials with the Town Manager's office and the Department of Public Works proposed an increase for the water and sewer rates for Fiscal Year 2019. These increases - 6 percent for sewer and 2 percent for water - will end a five-year cycle of the same raises and is covered by an ordinance the Selectboard approved in 2014. This proposal came during the FY19 utility fund budget talks at the May 1 regular Selectboard meeting. The Board will continue the...
Education Secretary Rebecca Holcombe writes a somewhat disingenuous op-ed in which she contends school choice is not threatened by Act 46 and that voters in their communities ultimately decide whether to continue tuitioning to allow each family to find a school that best fits their child's needs. In fact, Act 46 provides a variety of incentives, penalties, and rules that work against individual communities freely choosing their direction. The preferred option laid out in the law would eliminate choice for...
On Friday, July 9, at 5 p.m., the Brattleboro Literary Fest continues its 20th anniversary year with a home-on-the-range trip to Elko, Nevada via KT Sparks' new book, Four Dead Horses. Sparks will participate in a free online conversation with local writer Stephanie Greene. On May 1, 1982, 18-year-old Martin Oliphant watches a horse drown off the shore of Lake Michigan - the first of (almost) four equine corpses marking the trail that will lead Martin out of the small-minded...
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