VERNON — In the end, it is the patients who suffer.
The Brattleboro Retreat is needed in this community. Clearly, something is not going well there, and I hope the facility can be turned around quickly before it is forced to close its doors.
Wilda L. White, Hilary Melton, and Malaika Puffer are founding directors of MadFreedom Advocates, Inc.,
BRATTLEBORO-While it's encouraging that we're finally approaching a more inclusive way of recognizing the voices...
BRATTLEBORO-The results from the Charter Revision Committee's recent poll in Districts 7, 8, and 9...
Peter Adair is the author of the books Sacred Universe and Sacred Earth. WESTMINSTER WEST-Unlikely...
When self-described “Blind Masseur” Neil Taylor recently published the memoir, The Life We Got: Losing Sight and Gaining Vision, the 38-year-old wondered if he had aged enough to warrant an autobiography. “Having lost nearly everything that I took for granted - that the majority of young people can and do and probably should take for granted,” he went on to reason in the preface, “well, maybe I've earned a sort of cosmic permission to share the story of my life...
The Green Mountain Mummers, having been prevented from performing for two years, are returning to Windham County towns to present their symbolic death-and-resurrection street theater, rain or shine, in six locations. The group of 10 (mostly) Windham County residents is probably the oldest continuing sword dance and mumming troupe in the United States. Founded in 1975, the group operates in the manner of the old English morris and sword dancers from which the dances were originally collected - they meet...
WESTMINSTER-If citizens of the Windham-3 district want a state representative whose primary concern is the welfare of our community, you will vote to re-elect Michelle Bos-Lun. Since we moved to Windham County in 2017, we have watched Michelle and her positive, powerful, and productive work in the community: working with COSA (Circles of Support and Accountability) to help recently released prisoners re-enter society, teaching classes at Southern State Correctional Facility, advocating for gun safety, teaching English to asylum seekers, working...
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