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.
Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, Mollie Burke, Michael Mrowicki, and Zon Eastes are state representatives; Nader...
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
It might be hard to imagine now in the midst of the social, medical, and economic fallout of the global COVID-19 pandemic. But allow yourself to imagine what the downtown waterfront area could look like four years from now. If everything falls into place, a gleaming new annex to the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will emerge at the foot of Main Street. A new Amtrak station on Depot Street will offer parking and full access for mobility-impaired train...
BRATTLEBORO-Rita Corbin, a graphic artist and printmaker, became involved in the Catholic Worker movement while living in New York City in the 1950s. The co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement and Catholic Worker newspaper, Dorothy Day, hired Corbin to make illustrations for the newspaper, and they became friends. Corbin became a lifelong contributor and was one of the three primary Catholic Worker artists, along with Fritz Eichenberg and Ade Bethune. In 1954, she married Martin Corbin, editor and literary critic.
I will be voting for Jill Stein on election day. I hope and pray that “the goddess of war,” Hillary Clinton, is not elected president, especially after reading Dr. Gilbert Doctorow's recent long and comprehensive article on just how close we are to a hot war with Russia. (Doctorow is the nonprofit European coordinator of American Committee for East-West Accord.) I feel that anti-Russian propaganda has reached a fever pitch in this country, and I think this is so important.
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