WILMINGTON — I thank you for bringing to my attention the anti-Semitic action of Ben & Jerry's. This product will no longer be allowed in my house.
This sort of surprised me, as your paper is usually not very revealing of anti-Jewish actions.
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...
When Karen Peterson began work at the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont in 1993, the novice assistant toiled daily in the shadow of a disease that was a certain death sentence. Peterson would go on to witness lifesaving advances in testing and treatment as she climbed the career ladder to become the Brattleboro-based nonprofit's executive director in 2013. So why, as she prepares to step down after three decades of work, is her job harder than ever? “I get comments...
A chance encounter during the summer of 2019 between New York–based painter John Newsom and Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) Director Danny Lichtenfeld gave rise to the 17-artist exhibit currently on view in the museum's capacious Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason Gallery. “Expedition” opened on June 19 and remains on view through Oct. 11. It marks the first time that artwork by actor and filmmaker Matt Dillon, who is also a practicing visual artist, has appeared in a museum.
The board and staff of the Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development offer our deepest thanks to our friends who participated in our Par for the Cause fundraiser on June 26 and 27. We are delighted that so many people took us up on the chance to play a family-friendly game of disc golf over a whimsical nine-hole course, and to join us for a picnic featuring great music and wonderful food. The event would not have been...
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