BRATTLEBORO-Carolyn Pieciak can tell you how she made peanut butter, jelly, and Fluff sandwiches for...
BRATTLEBORO-Medically, the only two ways in which white patients and Black patients differ are skin...
BELLOWS FALLS-Three Vermont hydroelectric dams and generating stations on the Connecticut River in Wilder, Bellows...
BRATTLEBORO-If there can be an obituary for a piece of legislation, then this is it:
“Are you ready to withdraw loyalty [to your country]...” were some of the initial words spoken by the Honorable Colleen A. Brown, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, just before she administered an Oath of Allegiance to twenty new U.S. citizens. The group of newly established Vermonters had assembled on stage at The Grammar School in Putney for their Naturalization Ceremony. They represented 15 countries - Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, France, Moldova, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Sweden, the U.K., Vietnam, and Yemen...
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria certainly deserves the world's condemnation for using chemical weapons against his own people. But before the United States responds militarily, let it be established beyond any reasonable doubt that he did in fact do this. And then why not let NATO and the United Nations Security Council decide how to respond? In the meantime, it is troubling to imagine what steps the United States is considering to take on its own. Based upon previous interventions,
Students from three housing communities in Brattleboro have created accordion books of artwork and poetry that are currently on display at Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro. The project, titled “Image to Page,” took place during outdoor classes sponsored by the Art in the Neighborhood program over the summer months. Staff from the program elicited descriptive words for poems from the students while the students painted and drew. Art in the Neighborhood, founded by state Rep. Mollie S. Burke, P/D-Brattleboro, has...
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