PUTNEY — Now more than ever, it is crucial for us to strengthen our local communities. Our local school - and our local involvement with and control over our school - forms the architecture that makes our town resilient and responsive in so many ways.
Please join me in voting no to the school merger (Act 46) on Town Meeting day.
Leslie Zucker is a certified professional life coach, a facilitator of a women's group, and...
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block,
Kerry Secrest serves as honorary consul of Lithuania to Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-A heartfelt thank you to...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes...
Attending Annual Representative Town Meeting has often been an exercise in endurance as meetings, at least in the past 10 years, have stretched well beyond the eight-hour mark. Frustration expressed by some members around the lack of deep conversations at this year's meeting, however, highlighted ARTM's limitation in this regard. By the end of the night, the number of meeting members began to dwindle, prompting remaining members to consider - and ultimately vote down - a non-binding proposal to move...
When I was a student there from 1994 to 1998, Marlboro College described itself as a “learning community unlike any other in the country,” one “distinguished by its philosophy of self-governance, its tradition of academic vigor and excitement, and by its curriculum, self-designed, tailored to the individual, and taught in very small classes and one-on-one tutorials.” For the first few months of my time there, I was an outcast in a community filled with outcasts. At mealtime, I would always...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) hosts artist and instructor Jenny Santa Maria on Saturday, March 23, for two workshops in Pysanky, the traditional Ukrainian folk art of egg decoration. The workshops will take place at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The techniques used in Pysanky are similar to batik. Patterns are drawn on an egg with hot beeswax, and the egg is then dipped in colored dye. The wax protects covered areas from subsequent applications of dyes, and...
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