PUTNEY — Retired Brattleboro Police Department Captain Mark Carignan's premier novel Out from Under: George V. Higgins would have admired it.
If you know who he was, that's my review.
If you don't, read both.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
BRATTLEBORO-The cause of the March 26 fires that temporarily displaced 126 at the School of International Training (SIT) on Kipling Road “will be listed as undetermined," according to Brattleboro Assistant Fire Chief Charles Keir III. Keir added that the origin of the fires were determined to not be suspicious. According to the fire department, Brattleboro emergency personnel received an alarm call from SIT at 11:11 a.m. Units arrived at 11:19 a.m. and first-arriving crews located a fire in Gamble Residence, a...
PUTNEY-Composer-in-Residence Jörg Widmann returns to Yellow Barn for the final week of this year's summer music festival in Putney. Performances take place in the Big Barn nightly at 7:30 p.m., and 12:30 p.m. for a Saturday matinee. At the center of Widmann's residency are his Beethoven Studies, a five-part string quartet cycle. "I'm very interested in a dialogue," said Widmann in a news release, "but not in a nostalgic way, looking back and saying, well, it was so nice in...
On Aug. 10, as Sen. Bernie Sanders met with seniors in Brattleboro, Action Corps Vermont members submitted questions from Vermonters, he recommitted to taking action in the Senate to reclaim congressional constitutional responsibility over war, including in Yemen. Now is the time for Bernie to make good on that commitment. He needs to introduce and support legislation to stop U.S. complicity in the ongoing Yemen crisis. During the recent discussion in Brattleboro, constituents reminded him of his Dec. 13, 2022...
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