DUMMERSTON — Wonderfully detailed and complete article on the status of recycling and trash disposal but no information on how options affect the environment and climate change.
I would love to read more in a future story.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
A reduction in staff has led interim Brattleboro Police Chief Mark Carignan to reduce coverage from three shifts to two. In practice, the schedule is a little more nuanced. According to Carignan, the goal for the change - which took effect May 23 - is to ensure that remaining officers no longer work multiple overtime shifts or more than 16 hours a day. Consequently, the department will reorganize its foot patrols to align with when the town requires the most...
BRATTLEBORO-Jesus Wept is an existential comedy by Brattleboro-based playwright Steve Wangh. The play is sponsored by the Centre Congregational Church, where Scott Couper is pastor and teacher. The play opens with a vision of Mary and God responding to the prayers of humans who are facing both serious and absurd life crises. But when Jesus joins the scene, the strain of coping with centuries of human foibles threatens to unravel the Holy Family entirely. Sacred and profane disagreements among the...
BRATTLEBORO-I am sad to see that a petition for a ballot article in Brattleboro and other towns that includes language calling for others to join in "working to end all support of Israel's apartheid regime, settler colonialism and military occupation." Israel is not a settler colonial state. The existence of Israel is existential for Jews and a pillar of Jewish belief. The proposed article disproportionately criticizes Israel and minimizes Hamas's, Iran's, and other nations' role in the current war in...
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