We inadvertently omitted a name on “Police should be taking hate speech seriously,” a letter that appeared in the July 18 issue. The letter should have been signed by both Arlene Distler and Steve Minkin.
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...
In the same week when the Windham Southeast School District's Transition Board held its first working meeting, Superior Court Judge Robert Mello issued a ruling that dismissed three out of six counts in a lawsuit filed by 33 school boards and other entities. Mello's decision came on April 12 after several months of hurry-up-and-wait since the State Board of Education issued its November merger decisions for school districts that had yet to merge, including Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, and Putney. The...
Part of my frustration with the gun control conversation is that liberals have their hearts in the right place but rarely know enough about guns to make effective policy. Banning assault weapons as a main strategy assumes that there is a meaningful difference between what qualifies as an assault weapon and any other semi-automatic firearm. It feels like liberals hear “assault weapon” and picture Rambo, but as a former Marine, I see that it is sadly true that most of...
On Saturday, March 30, from 1 to 4 p.m., acclaimed pysanky artist and instructor Jenny Santa Maria will lead a hands-on workshop at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center on the traditional Ukrainian folk art of egg decoration. Participants will leave the workshop with a beautiful decorated egg. Pysanky technique is similar to batik. Patterns are drawn on an egg with hot beeswax, which protects covered areas from subsequent applications of colored dyes. When the wax is removed, a multi-colored...
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