It started with a post in the Brattleboro, Vermont Facebook group by Greenfield, Mass. resident Erin Bohannon, who attached scans of portraits of local people and said that she was looking to return them to families. If you've lived in the area for a bit, the names on the 5{x}7 black-and-white photographs would be familiar: Barb Covey, Marion Gassett, Tucky Houghton, Stuart Anderson, Eugene Lane, and many more. Bohannon didn't ask for money, and she was willing to pay the...
Reprising his role as the creator of everything that ever is, was, or will be, Rich Potter will present “God: The One-Man Show” April 30 at 7:30 p.m. at the Hooker-Dunham Theater in downtown Brattleboro. According to a news release, the show reveals Potter's take on what “Our Supreme Being” was doing in the moments before the big bang. The show has garnered strong reviews, including a nod from the DC Metro Theater Arts calling it “a comedic hurricane.” According...
At last! Finally, Brattleboro has a chance to clean up town government and install a mayor. What has taken so long? A mayor will be able to really lead this city. A strong executive works. Just look at all the good things that a strong leader has accomplished in Washington. Just as Trump can ignore the silly people in Congress, so a mayor can get rid of the Representative Town Meeting debating society that gets in the way of progress.
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