BRATTLEBORO — Lester Dunklee is the best! I go in with some pretty random requests and projects. I have yet to stump him.
Sometimes it takes a minute, but that light bulb above his head always lights.
Charles F. Monette is a poet, teacher, playwright, actor, builder, and U.S. Army veteran. BRATTLEBORO-Recently,
Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. WESTMINSTER-Democrats in the state Legislature scored some...
Fric Spruyt represents District 9 in Brattleboro's Representative Town Meeting. BRATTLEBORO-At the July 8 Brattleboro...
Jim Freedman is a leadership consultant and the author of Becoming a Leader: Identity, Influence,
Housing in the rural central tier of southern Vermont always has been dependent upon single-family homes. Apartment complexes are rare in most villages. Instead, most residents in southern Vermont have found housing in single-family homes to purchase and apartments to rent in repurposed larger homes or other buildings. Despite waiting lists for low-income or senior housing, that formula seemed to have satisfied the majority of the populace - until COVID-19 hit the East Coast in March of 2020. The pandemic...
New England Youth Theatre, 100 Flat St., presents Clowntown's Newsreels of the 1930s, written and directed by Doran Hamm with Stephen Stearns, to be performed at 7 p.m., on Oct. 27 and 28 and Nov. 3 and 4, and at 2 p.m. on Oct. 28 and 29 and Nov. 4 and 5. NEYT's Clowns are at it again. Clowntown's Newsreels of the 1930s will take some of history's most famous events for reenactment in typical Clowntown fashion. The flight of...
On March 11, 12 years will have passed since the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi reactor complex - a meltdown that happened as the result of a massive tsunami. The natural disaster should not have been surprising due to Japan's location within what geologists call the “Ring of Fire,” a powerful designation of the area around the Pacific Ocean where seismic activity is endemic - which makes the Pacific shoreline of Japan a very poor spot to build numerous...
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