What started out as a one-man protest in the spirit of the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park in New York has turned into a interesting legal dilemma for the town. Anthony Gilbert, 37, of Ann Arbor, Mich., has been camped out on the common since Oct. 7. Brattleboro Police have politely asked him to leave several times over the past week, but Gilbert has declined to so. On Monday morning, Gilbert met with Town Manager Barbara Sondag and...
PUTNEY-I'm wondering why Kamala Harris - right after Donald Trump rose from the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, fist in the air, urging "Fight, fight, fight" - chose to adopt that pugilistic language herself. Watching her campaign, I felt that while criticizing Trump incessantly, she also chose to take on and copy his worst habits. Like name calling, at the end. When everything is characterized as a fight, a me-versus-you, an us-versus-them dynamic is immediately set up. There is an instant...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) invites creators of all ages to design and build original Lego sculptures and display them at the museum this fall in BMAC's seventh annual LEGO Contest & Exhibit, Nov. 21-23. According to BMAC director Danny Lichtenfeld, the event has grown into a great community affair. “We regularly receive entries from contestants ranging in age from toddlers to senior citizens. Most entries are from the tri-state area surrounding Brattleboro but we always have some...
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