BRATTLEBORO — I have come to view Donald Trump simply as “The Abscess.”
Charles F. Monette is a poet, teacher, playwright, actor, builder, and U.S. Army veteran. BRATTLEBORO-Recently,
Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. WESTMINSTER-Democrats in the state Legislature scored some...
Fric Spruyt represents District 9 in Brattleboro's Representative Town Meeting. BRATTLEBORO-At the July 8 Brattleboro...
Jim Freedman is a leadership consultant and the author of Becoming a Leader: Identity, Influence,
BRATTLEBORO-The Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) will continue its America 250 Speaker Series at 118 Elliot on Sunday, April 28, with climate change scientist Alexander More, an associate professor of environmental health at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a research scientist at Harvard University. His talk, "10 Things You Think Will Save the Planet, but Probably Won't ... and What Will," reflects his extensive research on the impact of climate change on the health and economy of populations and...
BRATTLEBORO-At 9:10 a.m. on Thursday, June 26, Brattleboro's New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA) will be featured on NBC's Today, highlighting the school's Silver Circus class for students age 60 and above. In early April, NBC Producer Kayla Steinberg called NECCA's Producing Director Serenity Smith Forchion with an idea. Steinberg had taken a few aerial classes in New York City and was searching for a good story line when she saw an announcement from NECCA about the Silver Circus...
It is now more than a month into the new year, and it's likely that resolutions we made in earnest just a few weeks ago have already been ignored. That's OK. We can forgive ourselves for being overly resolute; these hard times ask much of us, and positive changes we seek in our personal lives are difficult to launch or sustain at the best of times. But there are larger resolutions I wish we could have made collectively that are...
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