BRATTLEBORO — Great coverage of a terrific event! Thank you to the Brattleboro Chamber, and specifically to Kate O'Connor and Greg Lesch, for all of their hard work on the recent governor's debate!
Cassandra Holloway works for a nonprofit that focuses on substance misuse prevention and youth empowerment. Gavin...
WESTMINSTER WEST-The United States is in a different place from where it was seven months...
GUILFORD-I want to commend Steev Lynn for correcting the historical record in response to Tristan...
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A proposal to review how the town provides community safety will go before the Selectboard at a special meeting on Thursday, Aug. 6. The request for proposals (RFP) is designed to create a deep, community-led assessment of safety in town. Once approved, the RFP would seek and fund proposals from facilitators who would design and shepherd this review. According to the document created by a group of citizens and submitted to the town on Aug. 3, the review will dive...
BRATTLEBORO-A member of a Palestinian women's cooperative will visit Brattleboro on Sunday, Feb. 16, to show and sell tatreez, the iconic Palestinan embroidery included on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The Palestinian Tatreez Pop-up will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 69A Elliot Street. Laila Hasan al-Awawda of Women in Hebron will speak at 1 p.m. about her women's cooperative. The group is seeking to overcome a near total blockade of tourism and commerce in their southern...
What is going on with the millions of Republican/conservative/Trumpist Americans who refuse the reality of public health? I continue to follow - in awe - the strange, ignorant, and hostile views of people who deny repeated realities. It feels completely counterintuitive to think that there are still Covid deniers, but those people are still out there. In a December 2020 survey, they comprised 13 percent of the United States population. Their explanations for the illnesses and deaths are thoroughly convoluted.
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