BRATTLEBORO — RE: “A community photographer, mentor, and friend” [Editorial, April 3]:
A nice tribute to a good friend who is already missed by many.
Wendy Harrison is one of Windham County's two state senators. BRATTLEBORO-We're talking a lot about...
LEYDEN, MASS.-I was lucky to have been born in Boston in 1947 and never served...
WARDSBORO-I agree, we do need facts. Have you heard of CWD (chronic wasting disease)? It's...
The writer is president of Vermont Friends of Israel. ATHENS-In response to Bert Picard's criticisms...
Closed in May 2022 after pandemic conditions resulted in a shortage of money and qualified nursing staff to run it, former assisted living facility Holton Home is now being transformed into housing for traveling health care workers. The new incarnation of this historic building at 158 Western Ave. is a result of a collaboration among M&S Development, which is adapting the structure; Garden Path Elder Living, its owner; and the Brattleboro Retreat, whose temporary staff can find housing there in...
Recently, Bill McKibben spoke at the West Village Meeting House. He was, as always, both inspirational and down to earth with his analysis of the climate crisis. It is clear as daylight (when we are not looking through wildfire haze from the west) that the masters of capitalism have made a decision to destroy the Earth's climate rather than make the financial sacrifices it would take to make our energy system sustainable. Rather than choosing to stay in his small...
Write Action is sponsoring a weekend memoir workshop on Saturday and Sunday, April 23 and 24, from 1 to 3 p.m., at Marlboro College Graduate Center on Vernon Street. The workshop leader is Ann Anderson Evans. “After years of writing and teaching, I have concluded that everyone has a story,” Evans wrote in a news release. “It’s easy to talk about life, but difficult to write about it.” Evans has been helping people write their stories for over a decade.
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