BRATTLEBORO — Thank you, Jeebus! And thank you, Wendy M. Levy [“A union-busting law firm separates Co-op from its expressed ideals,” Letters, Oct. 17], for your articulation of the problem.
Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
In the “year without a summer,” 14 parishioners left their church in West Brattleboro for a small schoolhouse on what today is the Town Common. Under a sky filled with volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Tambora the previous year and amid freezing temperatures from the event's climate disruption, the 12 women and two men would call their church the “Brattleborough East Society” in 1816. Two decades later, the growing Calvinist congregation moved their church piece by piece to...
Humans share the planet with many species of wildlife - some receive protections as endangered species, like the Canada lynx in Vermont, while others receive few, if any, protections at all. Bobcats, a close cousin to the Canada lynx, and coyotes are grouped in the latter category. As apex predators on Vermont's landscape, these animals are vital contributors to healthy, vibrant ecosystems, but they're often misunderstood and unfairly maligned. One of the main roles coyotes and bobcats play is that...
On May 20, in the main theater at the Latchis, the Landmark Trust USA announced the finalists of the second Rudyard Kipling Young Writers Award, a challenge offered to all Windham County students in grades 4-6. This challenge began in 2016 in celebration of Landmark Trust USA's 25th Anniversary. “As owners of five historic homes that have been painstakingly restored and opened for guests, including Rudyard Kipling's home, Naulakha, in Dummerston, where he wrote the Just So Stories, The Jungle...
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