RE: “A good session for our lawmakers” [Editorial, May 16]:
A “good session” if you call redistributing other people's money good.
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
On Rolf Parker's first day as a tobacco prevention specialist working at Leland & Gray Union High School, he learned cigarettes weren't his only foe. Parker looked on as a school administrator showed him a cardboard box with devices confiscated from students. Those little electronic cartridges, which looked like computer flash drives, each held liquid containing the same amount of nicotine as an entire pack of cigarettes, plus a flavoring agent to make the contents taste like some approximation of...
Storyteller Simon Brooks brings his talent for telling side-splitting stories to Saxtons River on Saturday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. in a performance arranged by Main Street Arts. The event, at Christ's Church, is sponsored by TMG Enterprises LLC. Tickets are $15, and sold at MSA or at the door on the night of the show. Brooks (www.simonbrooksstoryteller.com), an award-winning British storyteller, educator, and voice-over artist, brings humor to most of his stories. These are sometimes wry, sometimes edgy, and...
At a meet-and-greet town hall hosted by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders at the Senior Center in Brattleboro on Aug. 10, Action Corps Vermont presented him with a petition signed by almost 900 people across the country, including many Vermonters, asking for his leadership in the Senate - now - to end endless wars, starting with the U.S.-backed Saudi war and blockade on Yemen. Bernie met the December setback in his efforts to force a vote on his Yemen War Powers...
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