BRATTLEBORO — RE: “A community photographer, mentor, and friend” [Editorial, April 3]:
A nice tribute to a good friend who is already missed by many.
BRATTLEBORO-We are living in a moment of deep crisis for our democracy. Billionaires and political...
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...
There's a baby boom this month at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital's birthing center. According to Debbie Partrick, the director of women's and surgical services at BMH, 48 babies were scheduled for delivery in July. Of those 48, nine were delivered in June before their scheduled birth date. As of July 10, 10 babies - four boys and six girls - had been delivered at BMH, with 29 to go. Partrick said that 25 or 30 births is the usual normal number...
Landmark College is currently displaying an exhibition of Dave Cole's artwork including a monumental new piece, “Machine Dreams.” Cole is a 1997 alumnus of Landmark College, a graduate of Brown University, and a prominent contemporary artist included in public and private collections worldwide. Commissioned by Landmark College, this exhibition includes a 1950s Farmall tractor that Cole has repurposed into a printing machine. This project is loaded with biography, as the tractor has been in Dave's family for three generations and...
Recently, a woman stopped me in front of the grocery store and asked me for change. “Please,” she said, “I'm homeless. I swear I am; look at my hands, look how cracked and dirty they are. I'm seven months pregnant.” She was talking a mile a minute and shaking. I gave her money and the bag of chips I was about to tear into myself. I was glad to give her money. But there were four homeless men on my...
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