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.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
According to documents shared during the Dec. 16, ceremony from the Friends of Vernon Center, the town, and Entergy, the Governor Hunt House has witnessed many changes. Jonathan Hunt built the house in 1789 for his wife, the former Lavinia Swan. Born in Northfield, Mass., Hunt inherited many acres of land in town and served as the state's first lieutenant governor under Gov. Thomas Chittenden. Hunt himself, however, never became governor. He did serve as sheriff of Windham County and...
On Friday, July 23, at 6 p.m., a restaurant event by the Indonesian pop-up Kaki Lima will precede a screening of Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2017), a feminist tale of vigilante justice that was only the fourth Indonesian film to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival. The dinner and screening will take place in the parking lot of the arts organization Epsilon Spires at 190 Main St. Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts tells the story of...
Mike Mrowicki has served since 2007 in the Vermont House of Representatives, where he represents Putney and Dummerston in the Windham-4 district. For more information about Mrowicki and his campaign for re-election, visit windham4.online. PUTNEY-As we head toward Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 5, one issue that we see - on the local scene and all the way up to Washington - is a national economy that can best be described as one of "have-nots and have-yachts." Locally, property-tax payers...
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