Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
BRATTLEBORO-What a depressing time to celebrate Independence Day, as No. 47 and his obedient and...
Sarah Ellis is a writer and mental health advocate who grew up in Brattleboro and...
BRATTLEBORO-Analysis of Brattleboro's Charter Revision Survey reveals growing dissatisfaction with the current Representative Town Meeting...
Erich Kruger, who founded ReNew Building Materials & Salvage, saw his position as executive director of the nonprofit organization terminated last month. Kruger, 41, who lives in Dummerston, said that after a meeting with ReNew's Board of Directors on July 20, “I was advised with unanimity the position of executive director at ReNew was being eliminated, and that my employment with ReNew Building Materials & Salvage [would] be terminated.” In a statement released last week, the board said it was...
Emily Bracale, author and artist of “In the Lyme-Light,” shares her life with Lyme disease in her book, and it speaks to all who have had similar contact with this illness. After years of sickness, Bracale found she was a “poster child for Lyme disease” and began the mentally and physically exhausting process of treatment and recovery. A former teacher and artist, she used her painting and writing to express her feelings and ideas about the disease. “Until recently, I...
My adopted daughter is now a beautiful, healthy 20-year-old student at Greenfield Community College, but my recent passage through the Miami International Airport brought back the painful memory of her first trip from Colombia to the United States. With every story I hear about the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, formerly the Immigration and Naturalization Service, detaining someone on the border or in an airport, this day also floods back. I have no idea how Colombian adoptions proceed today, but 20...
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