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.
Rick Gordon was the founding director of the Compass School, which operated in Westminster from...
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BRATTLEBORO-I am a Connecticut-born Yankee American, second-generation Irish immigrant, raised-Catholic, 62-year-old woman working in Brattleboro.
DUMMERSTON-Without wanting to validate Trump's demonization of America's shockingly large homeless population, I would like...
The Vermont Legislature is considering whether to allow continued pandemic-era flexibility in how and when the state’s 247 cities and towns decide local leaders, spending, and special articles. Lawmakers passed several bills in the past two years letting communities make short-term, Covid-safe changes to Town Meeting — traditionally held on or around the first Tuesday in March — and to gather municipal governing boards solely online. “The citizens of Vermont should be able to protect their health, safety, and welfare,”
BELLOWS FALLS-Taylor Abrahamse and Sage Christie will lead a casual, limited-space, LGBTQ-friendly workshop-performance-Q&A for young songwriters (and the songwriter-curious) on Sunday, Sept. 8, from 2 to 4 p.m. before their concert at Stage 33 Live. Based in Ontario, Canada, Taylor Abrahamse "defies the borders of song, gender, and genre," write organizers in a news release. Abrahamse is a Kerrville New Folk Winner, FAI & NERFA official performer, finalist on Canadian Idol and the Mariposa Emerging Artist Showcase, co-founder of Toronto...
“You'd really do that?” I had asked the night nurse. You'd make me an English muffin and a hot cup of tea?” It was 4:30 on the third morning of my 10-day hospital sojourn. I was starved, and breakfast was many hours away. She soon reappeared with muffin and tea, and left me munching wearily, in a rare, quiet moment. I thought, Dear Lord, please - bless her forever and ever as I sipped the warming brew. Would I have...
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