Michael Gigante, Ph.D. notes: "This is a piece I wrote after the first Trump election...
ATHENS-A group of morally confused Brattleboro citizens have petitioned onto the March 4 Town Meeting...
DUMMERSTON-Dear Gov. Scott, You enjoy a broad, bipartisan base of support here in Vermont, elected...
The Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Human Services Committee submitted recommended funding for human services nonprofits...
A state agency has cut a $5 million telecommunications grant to Vermont Telephone Co. in half. This is the third time the Vermont Telecommunications Authority has pulled VTel grant money in recent months. On March 29, it revoked two broadband grants to VTel worth $3.4 million. The most recent decision, made at a board meeting last Friday, comes after negotiations between the VTA and the private firm VTel stalled. The $5 million cellphone grant was announced at a news conference...
I am writing to urge all voters in Brattleboro to get out and vote on April 17 on the town budget. I am a town meeting representative who originally voted in favor of the police/fire proposal because, having toured the facilities, I could see the need. I can still see the need, but I no longer feel that town taxpayers can afford to do all three projects at the same time. Most town meeting reps at the meeting this March...
In the grand tradition of circus grandstanding - think of Barnum & Bailey calling itself “The Greatest Show on Earth” - the New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA) promises that its Professional Track Training Program show will be “like nothing you've ever seen before.” This time, however, such hyperbole just might be right on the money. “From Out of the Ordinary” features the graduation performance by advanced students. It's a full theatrical production in a full-sized theater featuring trapeze,
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