BRATTLEBORO — RE: “From Vermont family court to judging war criminals” [News, Oct. 10]:
Patty Whalen, and the entire wave of women appointed to the bench during the Madeleine Kunin era, brought Vermont forward in reducing gender bias in Vermont courtrooms, but she did not end it.
Vermont still has a long way to go.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...
CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...
The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
“It all comes full circle.” That's how ReNew Building Materials & Salvage founder and former executive director Erich Kruger describes the experience of liquidating the remains of the organization he once led. Kruger, who now runs Deconstruction Works, a building demolition and reuse cooperative, has been given the job of finding a home for the hundreds of cans of paint and the thousands of scraps of lumber, ceiling beams, windows, doors, and assorted other building ephemera that were left behind...
When I present to educators on the topic of learning differences, I emphasize how vital it is to engage multiple perspectives or frames of reference in order to gain a rich understanding rather than a one-dimensional one. I picked up this habit during the years I worked as a journalist in my 20s: that idea that you need to hear a story from all sides, and that the true story begins to emerge only after you have done this. I...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) presents an online conversation with artist Erick Johnson and BMAC Chief Curator Mara Williams about “Double Take,” an installation of Johnson's oil paintings and photographs. This free online talk takes place on Thursday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m. Register at brattleboromuseum.org. “Following Johnson on Instagram, I noticed he tended to post pictures of patterns made by seemingly random objects seen on the streets of New York: construction scaffolding, double grids created by grates...
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