BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Guilford's fire station needs paint” [Town and Village, Dec. 5]:
A well-reported article. I drive by the Guilford Fire Department all the time and wondered why it was blue.
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...
Now that “Brattleboro: An Atlas of Cultural Assets” has been published, what do the town's leading art organizations think of it? Judging from the reactions at a May 13 meeting convened by the Brattleboro CoreArts project at the Latchis Theatre, the atlas - the first part of an National Endowment for the Arts-funded process - got a thumbs-up for its design and creativity and an emphatic thumbs-down for content. A team of graduate students from the Conway School of Landscape...
On Friday, April 6, the world will finally have a chance to meet Lil' Balzac, a wannabe rapper willing to go the extra mile to realize his dreams of working with his favorite record producer. Lil' Balzac is the title character of a homegrown 30-minute absurdist comedy film shot in Brattleboro with a local cast and crew. It will have its first preview screening from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m., at the Latchis Theatre, a fitting place for the film's debut.
For much of the past eight years, well before Ferguson and Baltimore were on all our minds, the leadership of the Brattleboro Police Department (BPD) was considering various approaches to officer education in unbiased policing. New recruits attending the Vermont Police Academy participated in anti-bias policing workshops. In 2014, all BPD officers and dispatchers participated in a training provided by the Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity. This year, under Chief Michael Fitzgerald's leadership, the department is taking the bold...
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