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...
The man whose voice has kept the community abreast of important news for more than 40 years bowed his head, humbled, as he approached the podium at the front of the Retreat's Education Conference Center. For a moment, Tim Johnson Arsenault, news director for WTSA, disappeared within the crowd as members of the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce gave the news veteran a standing ovation. Re-emerging from the sea of applauding Chamber members, Johnson graciously accepted the Chamber's 2014 Person...
On what would have been his 80th birthday, Jerry Garcia's music is alive and well in 2022. Each year, in early August, tens of thousands of fans gather all over the globe to pay tribute to his kind spirit, listen to his music, and celebrate his birthday. You will hear that music reverberating at the Stone Church next Monday, Aug. 1, at 8 p.m. when the Garcia Project rolls into town to pay homage to a beloved musical icon. The...
Some environmentalists, in reference to the current practices of factory farming, overfishing, and methods for energy extraction such as fracking, have called the Western industrialized view of the environment a war against nature. This view applies to the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in Vernon as well. Over its 42-year history, tons of radioactive waste have been stored on the land there and the Connecticut River has been used as a repository for VY's heat and waste. In terms of environmental...
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