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...
Following guidance from the American Civil Liberties Union and the town's legal counsel, the Brattleboro Selectboard unanimously voted to repeal an anti-panhandling ordinance at their regular meeting on Oct. 16. During the comments period, Board members invited Brattleboro Police Chief Michael Fitzgerald to discuss how his officers are responding to the increase of people asking strangers for money, and people who are homeless, in the downtown district. This was the second public hearing of the ordinance change; the first occurred...
With each passing year, the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department (FWD) becomes more entrenched in its support of archaic laws regarding wildlife. The problems start at the top. When FWD Commissioner Jack Porter resigned last year, I hoped for a successor with modern values who would take animal ethics into consideration. Instead, Gov. Phil Scott appointed yet another commissioner - Chris Herrick - who lacks any credentials in environmental sciences or wildlife management. Ethics don't seem to be too high...
Although it was formed a few years ago, it took some time for the Brattleboro-based Intrinsic Beauty of Invisible Things (IBIT) Dance Company to mount a tour. This week, IBIT director Brenda Siegel, who co-founded the company with choreographer Amy Softic, said her company will try a three-date “mini-tour” in New England, with stops in Northampton, Mass. on Thursday, March 27, and Cambridge, Mass., on Friday, March 28, before returning to Brattleboro for a performance the Latchis Theatre on Saturday,
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