BRATTLEBORO — A request for State Rep. Mike Hebert and the health-care committee:
Please support any proposition to remove the religious exemption from vaccinations and support the medical and scientific community's consensus that vaccine exemptions should only be granted to children for medical reasons, not parental ignorance.
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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...
It was almost 11 p.m., about 2{1/2} hours into a three-hour discussion on Sept. 7 about how the town will provide emergency medical services (EMS) in the future, when the conversation focused a beam directly on the town's partnership with previous provider, Rescue Inc. For a nanosecond, you could hear a pin drop after board member Elizabeth "Liz" McLoughlin, asked the board to direct town staff members to plan to outline a history of the Brattleboro Fire Department's previous relationship...
Who's in on bludgeoning animals? Do you support the inhumane treatment of wildlife? Gov. Phil Scott wants you to apply to the Fish & Wildlife Board! During a recent Fish & Wildlife Board meeting where the board was required by the Legislature to come up with regulations on how to humanely trap and kill animals, one of Gov. Scott's board-appointed members representing Chittenden County recommended "bludgeoning" trapped animals. Some of you might recall those anti-fur commercials from the 1980s showing...
In 2020, more than a half a century since the Windham Orchestra began at long-defunct Windham College (now the campus of Landmark) in Putney, the organization split from its longtime parent entity, the Brattleboro Music Center (BMC). And, after pandemic-enforced darkness, with a first concert last month, it has reemerged into the local music world as the Windham Philharmonic. Since 2010, the group has been led by Hugh Keelan, who introduced staged performances of opera such as Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci,
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