RE: “Remembering Kate” [Memoir, April 25].
A courageous and touching personal story, beautifully told. Thank you, Mary Ellen Copeland!
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
BRATTLEBORO-What a depressing time to celebrate Independence Day, as No. 47 and his obedient and...
Sarah Ellis is a writer and mental health advocate who grew up in Brattleboro and...
BRATTLEBORO-Analysis of Brattleboro's Charter Revision Survey reveals growing dissatisfaction with the current Representative Town Meeting...
This past year has brought opportunities and challenges to Brattleboro Community Television. At the community access station's annual meeting on Sept. 16, Executive Director Cor Trowbridge outlined some of the year's highlights and surprises. While the COVID-19 pandemic altered a lot of how BCTV operated, the station has seen a record amount of locally generated content. Like most of BCTV's work since the public-health crisis unfolded in March, the annual meeting happened online. Prior to COVID-19, “we were on track...
On Saturday, Aug. 8, at 7 p.m., West Townshend-based singer-songwriters Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson, the husband and wife folk duo Hungrytown, will debut their new CD Further West at a record release show in Wardsboro's Town Hall. Admission is $10 at the door. This one-time performance on their home turf will feature long-time collaborator, cellist Suzanne Mueller and Vermont fiddler Lissa Schneckenburger; both played with Hungrytown on this latest recording. Further West, their third album, was recorded in Vermont...
In my letter, the editor got the sentiment right but the context wrong. I did not state that “most people don't oppose drugs.” That is a statistic that's unknown to me. I did state, however, that “[m]ost people who use drugs do not abuse drugs.” Now that statistic I am long familiar with, and I stand firmly behind my sentiment to “leave them the hell alone.” Equating any illicit drug use with “drug abuse” is one of the many failings...
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