Leslie Zucker is a certified professional life coach, a facilitator of a women's group, and...
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block,
Kerry Secrest serves as honorary consul of Lithuania to Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-A heartfelt thank you to...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes...
“Keep Vermont Weird” read the T-shirt in a shop window in downtown Brattleboro. That shirt would not fit in every Vermont town, said Pennsylvania-based community organizer Denys Candy on one of his many visits to Vermont. “OK, there's something going on here,” he said of Brattleboro, where it's evident people have a deep love and commitment for this area. It's also evident to Candy that Brattleboro has multiple initiatives and an inordinate amount of “silos,” Candy told a group of...
As a Town Meeting Representative, I would value a discussion here about the local-option sales tax on the warning for Brattleboro Town Meeting on March 23. Economics 101 says that sales taxes are regressive because they tax necessities that make up most of the spending of those on the lower economic rungs. But Vermont's tax exempts basics like food, clothing, drugs, etc. Recently, I spent over $100 at the grocery store and paid only 22 cents in sales tax on...
David Stern and the Wild Goose Players (WGP) partner again with Sean Hurley to produce Hurley's latest, Claire in the Chair in the Cimetière. It opened Nov. 10, and the production's offered again this weekend at Next Stage. "This is another world premiere from our playwright-in-residence," says Stern of the play, described in its publicity materials as "a whimsical comedy about life and death and finding one's purpose in the unlikeliest of places." It's both a "comedy and a moving...
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