Django Grace describes himself as an environmentalist, skier, chiller, and lifelong Brattleborian. He graduated from...
Chloe Learey is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development...
WESTMINSTER WEST-My recent essay in The Commons revealed the unique position of Vermont as a...
Roger Allbee served as secretary of agriculture, farms, and markets for Vermont in the administration...
The Brattleboro Selectboard will conduct a public hearing on Monday, Jan. 14, at 6 p.m., to receive public input and testimony concerning the proposed Town Plan. The hearing is in the Selectboard Meeting Room at the Municipal Center, 230 Main St. According to Sue Fillion, of the Planning Services Department, the Selectboard held several public hearings on the proposed Town Plan throughout November and December, and worked their way through most of the plan. This hearing will begin by taking...
BRATTLEBORO-Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) and the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will host Pierre Losson, who holds a doctorate in political science from City University of New York, to discuss the legal, political, and ethical questions that drive the movement to return cultural objects. The talk will take place on Saturday, March 1, at 5:30 p.m., at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, 10 Vernon St. Pressure has been mounting for Western museums to return archaeological artifacts, artworks,
Do you have a shopping addiction disorder? Perhaps an addiction to food? Maybe one of your kids has Internet addiction disorder, or video-game attachment syndrome. Well, not quite yet, because these kinds of new mental diagnoses are only proposed, not final, for the new revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the bible of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). And there is a terrible problem with this. The DSM was first created in the 1920s. Based...
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