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...
It's been nearly two decades since Larry Smith and George Haynes started a holiday food drive to help needy residents in Windham County. That initial effort in 1994 by Smith, then the news director of WTSA, and Haynes, then the president of Brattleboro Savings & Loan, has grown into Project Feed the Thousands, the largest annual food drive in the region. And, unfortunately, the food drive has had to keep growing over the past two decades as the problem of...
A Christmas Memory is a story by Truman Capote set in his early childhood, when he was forced to live with distant cousins, none of whom paid any attention to him, with one exception... a much older cousin, also an outsider in the family and a bit strange. The two of them became fast friends. The story takes place at Christmastime when they made little fruitcakes for people they liked, including one for the president. The story climaxes when they...
Ann Braden Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she wanted to be remembered as someone “who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability. And to help repair tears in her society, to make things a little better through the use of whatever ability she has.” I wonder if it's possible to cry all the way until election day. To cry while we fight for every inch of justice there is. We may think...
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