BETHEL — At its monthly meeting on Oct. 28 in recognition of Armistice Day (Veterans Day), the Will Miller Green Mountain Veterans for Peace Chapter 57 adopted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and that negotiations begin for a lasting peace in the region.
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Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, Mollie Burke, Michael Mrowicki, and Zon Eastes are state representatives; Nader...
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
The snowplows and sanders are put away for the season. Spring is here, and that means the start of construction season around Windham County. The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) has several big projects going, the biggest being the $61 million Brattleboro-Hinsdale bridge project and the $27.5 million roadway reconstruction of Route 30 between Brattleboro and Newfane. The focus of the bridge project so far has been on the Vermont side, as construction crews work on building retaining walls and...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present an evening of traditional and contemporary Scottish and fiddle music by duos Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas and San Miguel Fraser (Galen Fraser & Maria San Miguel) on Sunday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. at Next Stage. The musical partnership between Alasdair Fraser, "the Michael Jordan of Scottish fiddling," and Californian cellist, Natalie Haas, has been described as "spanning the full spectrum between intimate chamber music and ecstatic dance energy," according to their...
Nicholas Boke is a freelance writer and international educational consultant. CHESTER-It all started when a community-action organization emailed concerns in advance of the Liberty Food Fest, which took place at the Bellows Falls Opera House in mid-December. Several of the speakers had reputations as anti-vaxxers and adherents of conspiracy theories like climate change being a hoax, critical race theory posing a threat to our children, and the value of drinking raw milk. The fact that a significant number of the...
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