BRATTLEBORO — Aww! After all these years eating at the Chelsea Royal Diner, it's so sweet to know the story. I wish I had known it earlier on! I know where we're going out next!
Beautiful writing, Wendy M. Levy!
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...
After their plans were delayed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) Tristate Chapter 843 has resumed raising funds to support the visit of the Moving Wall to town in 2021. A half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., the wall is 252 feet long and made of 74 black aluminum panels. It will be on display on Moore Field on Putney Road, near the junction of Routes 5 and 9...
A documentary film will take viewers into the daily lives of a Buddhist community in France, followed by a discussion with two former monastics who lived and practiced there. A 2017 British film, Walk With Me, explores three years in the monastic life within Plum Village Buddhist Community, described on its website as Europe's largest Buddhist monastery. More than 200 monks practice the art of mindfulness there, welcoming thousands of meditation practitioners from around the world for visits and retreats.
Less than two weeks after the chair of the Brattleboro Town School Board, Jill Stahl Tyler, wrote a letter to the State Board of Education advocating for Vernon to be removed from the WSESU, she testified before the House Committee on Education, as the School Board chair, without authorization or any direction from her local board. In her testimony, she argued against several bills that would extend the timeline for forced mergers for one year pending the outcome of a...
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