The Boys & Girls Club on Flat Street prides itself on being a safe place for young people, be it through its COVID-19 health procedures, annual facility assessments, or mandatory staff background checks. The municipal Transportation Center three doors down - where vandals left the club van undrivable this month while it was parked in a $1,000-a-year space - is another story. “We can attest to ongoing public alcohol and drug use and sales, intoxication, littering, and loitering,” club officials...
Musicians from Marlboro touring program, which has been lauded as a “virtual guarantee of musical excellence” by The Washington Post, returns to the Brattleboro Music Center Saturday, April 8. The concert, set for 7 p.m. at the Brattleboro Music Center (BMC), will include Mendelssohn's Two Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81; Wiancko's Benkei's “Standing Death”; Kurtág's Duos for Soprano and Double Bass from The Notebooks of G. C. Lichtenberg; Kirsten's “yes I said yes I will Yes”; and Beethoven's String...
One of the takeaways from our current political insanity is a crucial truth: Creating destruction and chaos is easy; building a system that is just is hard. Since the era of Reconstruction, millions of Americans have fought for civil rights, rights for women, for immigrants, and more recently, for the rights of disabled people and LGBTQ+ individuals. We have marched in the streets, we have volunteered to go door to door for progressive candidates, we have lobbied our legislators. And...
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