MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
A discussion of the problems and solutions to the violence, drugs and intimidation taking place on Elliot Street came up before the Selectboard last week. “It has really become an unsafe, violent place in our community. That needs to stop,” said Selectboard Chair Dick DeGray. The discussion quickly turned emotional as Selectboard members, business owners and residents weighed in. Many business owners and residents shared stories of intimidation and verbal assault. One local woman said she has been repeatedly accosted...
The Brattleboro Music Center will hold a daylong marathon of student performances on Sunday, May 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Robert H. Gibson River Garden on Main Street. Music School students, performing as soloists, duos, and ensembles, will perform everything from Bach to traditional Celtic music and Lloyd-Weber show tunes during the BMC's annual “Performathon.” The public is invited to stop by and listen, have lunch and indulge in baked goods, shop for hanging flower baskets,
It's been amazing to watch how rigged and undemocratic the presidential debates have been. I was surprised to finally see CNN allow anyone else to speak besides Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the last debate. And the NBC debates could not have been a more blatant demonstration of censorship, with lesser-known candidates relegated to the edges of the stage and given almost no questions, so that they were forced to yell and interrupt in order to have just a...
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