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Voices

Maybe try walking

By
Jeremy White
Wednesday, October 12, 2016 — Issue 378

WILMINGTON — Maybe try walking, since you can't drive safely (so you say). And slow the hell down if you can't stop. Genius.

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Looking where the money is

By
Richard Davis

Richard Davis, a retired registered nurse and tireless advocate for access to health care, is...

Forgive and forget?

By
Brian Shafford

WEST BRATTLEBORO-How long do you think it will take for the average Iranian to both...

All Aboard Brattleboro a success

By
John Potter and Kate Trazkos (Town of Brattleboro and Downtown Brattleboro Alliance)

This letter was signed by Brattleboro Town Manager John Potter and by Downtown Brattleboro Alliance...

Saving the Birthing Center means saving BMH

By
Tony Blofson and Elizabeth McLarney (Brattleboro Memorial Hospital)

Dr. Tony Blofson and Dr. Elizabeth McLarney are acting co-CEOs of Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. BRATTLEBORO-Few...

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Redistricting prompts big decisions for local lawmakers

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Randolph T. Holhut
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 — Issue 662

Two Windham County House members who found their current districts radically altered have made their decisions on what they will do in the 2022 election season. Rep. Carolyn Partridge, D-Windham, first elected to the House in 1998, will not seek re-election, while Rep. Michelle Bos-Lun, D-Westminster, will run for her second term in the House to represent the newly created Windham-3 district of Westminster, Brookline, and Rockingham. The recently approved House redistricting map sought to create one-member districts, which led...

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Bandwagon series continues with Mambo Jazz Party

Tuesday, July 29, 2025 — Issue 825

PUTNEY-The Bandwagon Summer Series continues its 2025 season with a celebration of Latin jazz as Mambo Jazz Party takes the stage on Saturday, Aug. 2, at 6 p.m., at Cooper Field, 41 Sand Hill Rd. Led by trumpeter Jonathan Powell, the Mambo Jazz Party ensemble fuses the rhythms of salsa and mambo with the textures of modern electric jazz. With a two-decade career performing alongside Latin jazz icons such as Eddie Palmieri and Arturo O'Farrill, Powell "brings a masterful blend...

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Future generations are at the lawmaking mercy of believers who largely deny science

By
Vidda Crochetta
Wednesday, November 4, 2020 — Issue 586

When I moved to Vermont in 2008, I didn't know that New England is the least religious part of the country. More recently, the 2016 Pew Research Center's Religious Landscape Study found that just 21 percent of Vermonters attend worship services regularly and only 41 percent say they believe in God with any certainty. It so happens that I was raised without any beliefs and religion. When, as a teenager, I asked my mother why, she said her family and...

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