A contribution to the Sept. 4 Letters from Readers column called out U.S. Rep. Peter Welch for not voicing support for impeaching President Donald Trump.
Welch, in fact, called for Trump's impeachment on July 18.
With a ballot full of races that were as hot as the August sun beating down on the candidates and supporters outside polling places around Windham County, voters turned out in strong numbers to vote in their party primaries on Aug. 9. In the marquee matchup for Vermont's lone U.S. House seat being vacated by longtime U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, Senate President Pro Tem Becca Balint of Brattleboro defeated Lt. Gov. Molly Gray to win the Democratic nomination. She will...
The idea for Circus in Place came out of a collaborative brainstorm by a group of circus artists in Vermont whose livelihoods were turned upside down during the global pandemic. “All of our touring contracts were cancelled,” Kevin O'Keefe of Circus Minimus, a circus artist who lives in West Brattleboro, said in a news release. “So we came together to build an outdoor, site-specific performance event that a local audience could see safely.” But due to out-of-state travel restrictions, most...
Cara Cheyette lives in Halifax, where, "as much at home as I felt in Cambridge, I've never felt more gratefully rooted than I do here, now," she says. HALIFAX-I fled a suburb of Boston in 1979, midway through senior year, and headed directly to Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For the first time in my life, I felt like I was home. I lived or worked near the Square for the next 30 years, and I raised my daughter there,
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