Cassandra Holloway works for a nonprofit that focuses on substance misuse prevention and youth empowerment. Gavin...
WESTMINSTER WEST-The United States is in a different place from where it was seven months...
GUILFORD-I want to commend Steev Lynn for correcting the historical record in response to Tristan...
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Wall Street came to Main Street on Saturday afternoon. More than 200 people crowded around the Wells Memorial Fountain to be part of a event held in conjunction with hundreds of others around the world in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York. Oct. 15 was designated as a global day of protest, with events in more than 80 countries and nearly 1,000 cities worldwide. And Brattleboro did its part with an event that saw a mix...
Photojournalist Peter Miller roasted a pig and went on the road to celebrate the publication of his new book, “A Lifetime of Vermont People.” “When the book came out last August, I invited everyone to a pig roast party in my backyard,” Miller says. “[Burlington gallery] Frog Hollow then arranged a tour of the Vermont libraries that will be displaying photographs and text from the book.” Through the month of October, the Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro, in association with...
In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris - attacks on Western civilization in the heart of Western civilization - and with CNN blaring on television screens everywhere, I happened to be attending the 32nd annual Miami Book Fair. It was odd timing. Books, after all, are where you can find the whole of Western civilization, exactly the civilization that Islamic extremists want to destroy. So there was a fine irony in being surrounded by authors, publishers, and readers...
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