BRATTLEBORO — RE: “A community photographer, mentor, and friend” [Editorial, April 3]:
A nice tribute to a good friend who is already missed by many.
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...
-For political races both nationally and throughout the state, many of the outcomes of Tuesday's election were far from surprising, with almost 69% of exactly 26,000 voters in the left-leaning region backing the Kamala Harris/Tim Walz Democratic Party ticket. Harris and Walz won Vermont's Electoral College votes in a race that nationally, at press time early Wednesday morning, appeared destined to go to their Republican Party opponents, Donald Trump and JD Vance. Incumbents Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent, and Democrat...
Following from Toni Powling's assumption in her Jan. 1 Reformer letter that impeachment proceedings ought to follow traditional due process procedures such as having a “speedy trial,” then those procedures also need to include a “fair trial.” Impartial jurors - Sens. McConnell and Graham, for example - should not be aligning themselves with one side or the other. And if discovery occurred in the House, leading up to the articles of impeachment, then a full trial - one that would...
Beyond the interaction invited through the exhibit of Charles Norris-Brown's art, the Canal Street Art Gallery welcomes volunteers to assist, as the gallery's website puts it, “in digital cataloging of all works pertaining to Thunder Basin to be available during the Distant Thunder Studio show, including artworks, sketchbooks and notebooks.” Those efforts will “help bring one artist's vision to life of developing his graphic novel into a Creative Commons–licensed work to be accessible for community-based projects worldwide.” So what does...
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