SAXTONS RIVER — RE: “Former library director envisions lawsuit” [News, Sept. 25]:
It's about time someone revealed the truth. Thank you for your reporting on this very serious injustice.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...
CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...
The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
Since the fire that destroyed McNeill's Brewery and took Ray McNeill's life, scores of people who knew the man, his pub, and his product have stopped to talk about him and remember. An award-winning brewer, McNeill was dubbed “the Bohemian Brewer of Brattleboro” in Microbrews magazine, where the author wrote, “His brews are not quite heavenly, but close enough to it that you might hear a harp playing in the background when you sip one of his brews.” But this...
They are the same. In my opinion, today's pharmaceutical industry is behaving much like its kissing cousins, the petrochemical industry, and the pesticide industry. All three of them - Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Agra - write the same narrative. Born of the “miracles” of science, they are technologies originated through need, transforming our lives for better and for worse, and advancing at a rate dangerously ahead of our human/earth biology. These industries are booming, creating such riches that the...
On Friday, Dec. 10, the Brattleboro Literary Festival concludes its 20th anniversary year with a Literary Cocktail Hour at 5 p.m., featuring award-winning novelist Ruth Ozeki. Register for the free online event at bit.ly/LitCocktail14. Ozeki will discuss her new book, The Book of Form and Emptiness, with local writer Stephanie Greene. The book tells the story of 13-year-old Benny Oh who, one year after the death of his beloved musician father, begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the...
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