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...
Advocates for the rights of migrant farmworkers and other immigrants - documented and undocumented alike - have applauded the Brattleboro Police Department's revisions to its Fair and Impartial Policing Policy (FIPP), which now prohibit officers from communicating or collaborating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “We applaud the towns and counties that have strengthened their policies to better protect immigrant rights,” says staff member Will Lambek of Migrant Justice, a Burlington nonprofit that suggested the local policy change. “This...
Alex Melamid, the New York City–based conceptual and performance artist, will visit the Kopkind Colony's Organ Barn on July 31 for a free talk, “Against Fear!” Melamid's presentation kicks off the colony's 18th annual session for journalists and activists. The Kopkind Colony is an educational summer residency program for independent journalists and community organizers. The organization describes itself as representing a “living memorial” to nationally renowned journalist Andrew Kopkind, who died in 1994. According to a news release, “The theme...
Recently, I had the pleasure of riding my bicycle through Brattleboro. Cycling is my primary mode of transportation and I ride 12 months of the year, through cold, snow, freezing rain, and sunshine alike. What made this particular ride stand out is that it took place in early February, on a 60-degree, sunny day. Rather than my normal winter riding gear of ski helmet, goggles, down coat, Gore-Tex pants and balaclava, I was wearing nothing more than a flannel shirt...
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