BRATTLEBORO — Compassionate Brattleboro endorses, in the interest of compassion, Brattleboro Common Sense's efforts to articulate the Brattleboro area community's longing for, and commitment to, a world that is healthy, fair, and caring for all.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
BRATTLEBORO-For the Brattleboro voters, the March 4 ballot is about more than just a symbolic...
PUTNEY-My name is Bex Slattery, and I am running for Selectboard in Putney. I am...
Sarah R. Ellis is a writer, disability advocate, and former teen librarian who grew up...
BRATTLEBORO-"It's not about ordinance or no ordinance," said Mel Motel, co-director of Restorative Justice Programs at Interaction: Youth Services and Restorative Justice. "It's about a third way. What can we build instead?" Motel was one of five panelists who proposed alternatives to the town's recently adopted Acceptable Community Conduct ordinance at a Nov. 18 public information meeting at Brooks Memorial Library. Opponents of the ordinance have obtained signatures from the 5% of registered voters necessary to trigger a Special Representative...
While Oscar Heller is relatively young and has lived here a relatively short period time (since 2014), he is an ideal candidate to guide the town. He has a long-term view, in that he has declared that if it's at all possible, he wants to live the rest of his life here. He has paid his dues, serving as town meeting rep, leading the Brattleboro Energy Committee and taking his turn running for Selectboard. Importantly, Oscar is intelligent and thoughtful.
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of traditional and contemporary Celtic and fiddle music by the band Kalos and duo O'Brien & Flick on Friday, Sept. 6, at 7:30 p.m. Three innovative interpreters and composers of Celtic roots music - Eric McDonald (guitar, mandolin, vocals), Ryan McKasson (fiddle, viola, vocals), and Jeremiah McLane (accordion, piano, vocals) - draw on years of experience performing with the likes of Cantrip, Nightingale, The Clayfoot Strutters, and Alasdair Fraser &
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