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.
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...
Although plans for the Putney Road Improvement Project haven't taken as long as the Brattleboro-Hinsdale Bridge re-do, many locals wonder if this is another grand idea that may never happen. Will it be like New York City's Second Avenue subway, which officially opened on New Year's Day, 2017 - 100 years after its inception? Or, will the dream of near-seamless travel up and down Brattleboro's busy northern strip actually come true? It's hard to say right now, because the project...
Next Stage Arts presents composer and 2018 Guggenheim Fellow Felipe Salles's multimedia work, The New Immigrant Experience, on Friday, October 13, at 7:30 p.m. at Next Stage Arts, 15 Kimball Hill. The project portrays experiences of the almost 700,000 individuals currently protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, commonly referred to as "Dreamers" based on the never-passed proposals in Congress called the DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education, for Alien Minors) Act. Salles himself emigrated from Brazil to...
When I was 16, I knew I was a woman. This realization came from the core of my awareness. I felt an assuredness as solid and calm as a growing sapling. My feet were connected to the earth, and my spirit became attached to the wide forest of women in the world. I was to become the attendant of women's power and presence. I looked out the window of my boarding school bedroom and felt at one with the trees...
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