Rick Gordon was the founding director of the Compass School, which operated in Westminster from...
BRATTLEBORO-Have you been to 69A Elliot St. yet? Please stop in soon! It's such a...
BRATTLEBORO-I am a Connecticut-born Yankee American, second-generation Irish immigrant, raised-Catholic, 62-year-old woman working in Brattleboro.
DUMMERSTON-Without wanting to validate Trump's demonization of America's shockingly large homeless population, I would like...
Lawmakers came back to the Statehouse in force last Thursday for a daylong legislative “briefing.” The seats in the House Chamber were nearly full and a number of senators sat in the gallery to hear the Shumlin administration's updates on the state's recovery from Tropical Storm Irene, a summary of the revenue forecast, the budget gap analysis and an overview of the status of the governor's two main objectives – health care reform and the development of a comprehensive energy...
The Northeast Men's Summer Chorus announces its sixth annual Performance Tour at local churches in West Brattleboro, Grafton, and Walpole, New Hampshire, Thursday through Saturday, Aug. 7–9. The chorus sings a variety of numbers in glee club style in the tradition of the Yankee Male Chorus which sang in southern Vermont and New Hampshire for 65 years. Selections are taken from musical theater, vintage pop, rock, country, spirituals, hymns, and patriotic genres. This year they'll be singing "God Bless America,"
After the hugely successful People's Climate March, and in spite of the scant media coverage, the question some ask is, “What's next?” Since buildings in the United States are the source of nearly half (48 percent) of our carbon emissions (twice as much as cars, at 24 percent), Community Solutions of Ohio has produced Passive House Revolution, a documentary film that describes the history, progress, and simplicity of super-insulating buildings to decrease energy demands, and therefore, the carbon emissions, as...
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