BRATTLEBORO-The Annual Town Election takes place for all town voters on Town Meeting Day, Tuesday,
BRATTLEBORO-The public is invited to a special informational meeting hosted by the Windham Southeast School...
BRATTLEBORO-Ashlyn and Abraham McClurg of Rebop Farm on Sunset Lake Road are reeling but resilient,
BRATTLEBORO-Upon the advent of the airplane at the turn of the 20th century, locals with...
The recent Democratic caucus meeting in town attracted all of seven people, and that's about two more than usual, according to Chairman Clarence Boston. But the meeting ran unusually long as Marlboro Democratic Committee members debated whether to endorse U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for president. In doing so, they thwarted the wishes of state and county party leaders, who are urging no primary-season endorsements for any candidate at any level. Boston says the committee wasn't interested in heeding that...
The so-called “Brigham decision,” which was the opening salvo in the Legislature's attempt to create the equality of school funding mandated by the Vermont Supreme Court, was also the beginning of the end of local control over public schools. Act 46, with its disingenuous mandate to effect educational “equity, accountability, and transparency” in the form of super-sized school districts, is the death knell of local control. The fundamental flaw which has underpinned all of Vermont tax policy since the arrival...
The Vermont Theatre Company announces its next production, Ken Ludwig's Moon Over Buffalo, the final weekend in November and the first weekend in December at the Evening Star Grange in Dummerston Center. Moon Over Buffalo tells the story of a jaded family of traveling actors struggling to make it from the stage to the silver screen. Their big chance comes in Buffalo, where they are performing Cyrano de Bergerac, but when they hear Frank Capra is considering them for roles...
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