BRATTLEBORO — Whoever painted this graffiti on a rock in the West River estuary, please desist.
Haven't we already done enough to the Abenaki lands?
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...
BELLOWS FALLS-Three Vermont hydroelectric dams and generating stations on the Connecticut River in Wilder, Bellows Falls, and Vernon, plus two in Massachusetts, are in the process of renewing their operating licenses - a process that has been extended for public comment by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) until Wednesday, May 22. The operating license renewing process has been going on since 2012. The facilities were last issued licenses by FERC over 40 years ago and the licenses for the...
I was stunned and appalled to read Malaika Puffer's Viewpoint about the proposed facility that would result in psychiatric incarceration. I have long written about the flaws in psychiatric practice. I also had the unhappy opportunity to witness cruel and inappropriate psychiatric hospital practices when my mother suffered severe episodes of depression and spent long months locked up, dragged into electroconvulsive therapy chambers, and overmedicated against her will in the days of Draconian treatments from which she never recovered. There...
A new exhibit in The Fine Arts Gallery at Landmark College explores issues of social justice and injustice through the multimedia works of Lani Asunción, Nima Nikakhlagh, Vick Quezada, and William Ransom. Curated by Landmark College Associate Professor of Arts Samuel Rowlett, “In the Course of Human Events” will be on display through Friday, April 21, in the Fine Arts Gallery, which is open to the public daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Rowlett says the exhibition title, taken...
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