PUTNEY — Retired Brattleboro Police Department Captain Mark Carignan's premier novel Out from Under: George V. Higgins would have admired it.
If you know who he was, that's my review.
If you don't, read both.
Leslie Zucker is a certified professional life coach, a facilitator of a women's group, and...
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block,
Kerry Secrest serves as honorary consul of Lithuania to Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-A heartfelt thank you to...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes...
What was the bustling industrial center of Bellows Falls a hundred years ago has slowly been converted over the past two decades into an exceptional public park. An area polluted, abandoned, and neglected for most of the past century has been the focus of volunteer citizens working to convert the 8-acre former industrial site into an inviting, environmentally safe outdoor space for the community. But somewhat hidden away and accessed from the village only through the alley-like, narrow Mill Street,
As a retired teacher in Brattleboro who has served the children and families of my community for 27 years, I am heartbroken to know that the horrific humanitarian conflict in Gaza continues. Since Oct. 7, this conflict has claimed tens of thousands of lives, mostly women and children. The lives of millions of civilians and the remaining hostages are again under threat, and the United Nations is warning of a famine soon. Rep. Becca Balint should use her position to...
On Friday, Dec. 17, at 8 p.m., the multimedia arts venue Epsilon Spires will screen a touchstone of early cinema, Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), accompanied by a live score performed by cellist and composer Lori Goldston. Goldston has worked with musicians such as Terry Riley (an avant-garde composer) and David Byrne (of Talking Heads), but she is most widely known for her performance with Nirvana on the band's 1993 episode of MTV Unplugged. “Now...
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