Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
The three Selectboard candidates vying for two open one-year seats greeted the public last week. On Feb. 11, WKVT and Brattleboro Community Television hosted one forum for the candidates, who followed that appearance with a second forum at the Brattleboro Citizens' Breakfast the next morning. Former board member Richard “Dick” DeGray, incumbent David Gartenstein, and newcomer Avery Schwenk answered questions about how, if elected to the board, they would approach economic development, homelessness, and the Police-Fire Project. DeGray and Gartenstein...
A heightened sense of camaraderie is filling the halls of Cotton Mill these days as craftspeople, musicians, dancers, circus performers and painters get ready for the fifth annual Open Studio and Holiday Sale. Last year, about 2,000 people came to the open house. This year, it will be held on Friday, Dec. 3, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., on Saturday, Dec. 4, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 5, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The...
What is a Town Meeting, anyway? One thing is for sure. It is not what most Americans (and many Vermonters) think it is. For decades, our representatives in Washington have come home to hold “town meetings” on this or that public issue - often, shameless testimonies to their own heroic efforts on our behalf. Meantime, national politicians and media label staged campaign events as “town meetings.” Both practices are fakery. As a teacher of national politics, I now find the...
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