Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
BRATTLEBORO-For the Brattleboro voters, the March 4 ballot is about more than just a symbolic...
PUTNEY-My name is Bex Slattery, and I am running for Selectboard in Putney. I am...
Sarah R. Ellis is a writer, disability advocate, and former teen librarian who grew up...
BRATTLEBORO-An achievement that has been decades in the making is about to finally happen with the announcement that the new General John Stark Memorial Bridge linking Brattleboro and Hinsdale, New Hampshire, will be open to motor vehicle traffic by the end of the day Thursday, Dec. 5. According to the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans), a new traffic pattern is scheduled to be in place in Brattleboro on that date. Barricades will be set up on Bridge Street to encourage...
Only one week after the shootings in Texas with 26 dead, including a fetus and its mother, my reaction has been rather strange. It is as if I have wrapped Teflon around my body, my soul, and my humanity. My reaction has been, “Oh, that's too bad. What's playing at the movies tonight?” There have been so many of these shootings and mass murders that I no longer have a humane and caring reaction to these events. They just roll...
The Brattleboro Area Jewish Community will welcome nationally-famed performer, teacher, and composer Cantor Linda Hirschhorn for a weeklong artist-in-residence program on Oct. 30 through Nov. 3. Hirschhorn is the founder of Vocolot, the first Jewish women's a cappella ensemble, and has released two songbooks and eight recordings of original material. Her songs and choral arrangements have been published in major Jewish and folk anthologies, are performed by professional and amateur groups around the world, and have been used in video,
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