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Landlords respond to a proposal to prohibit advance collection of last month's rent
Rick Gordon was the founding director of the Compass School, which operated in Westminster from...
BRATTLEBORO-Have you been to 69A Elliot St. yet? Please stop in soon! It's such a...
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...
After a noisy summer and fall of banging and clanging noises along the Connecticut River, the $61.2 million Brattleboro-Hinsdale bridge project has begun the next phase of work. As work on the new bridge continues to progress from Route 119 on the New Hampshire shoreline in Hinsdale, the New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) says that bridge work has begun on Vernon Street (Route 142) in Brattleboro. According to a recent NHDOT news release, bridge crews from Reed & Reed,
Palaver Strings' Beehive Chamber Series offers “The First Course,” a program of critically acclaimed string quartets throughout the ages, at the Brattleboro Music Center on Friday, Dec. 3. The program begins with Grażyna Bacewicz's Fourth Quartet, which was entered into the Liège International String Quartet Competition in 1951 at the behest of the Polish Composers' Union. It was hugely popular and won first prize, cementing Bacewicz's place as one of her country's foremost composers. The concert continues with Voodoo Dolls...
An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: We, the undersigned members and friends of All Souls Church (Unitarian Universalist) of Brattleboro and registered Vermont voters, urge your support for the 2020 Plan for Climate Action in Vermont, including: • The Vermont Global Warming Solutions Act • A strong, equitable transportation and climate initiative • A commitment to 100-percent-renewable energy by 2030 • Modernizing Vermont's energy-efficient utilities A cornerstone of our faith is respect for the interdependent web of all existence,
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