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Voting in Rockingham for the ‘Trustees You Can Trust’

By
Debbi Wetzel
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 — Issue 241

SAXTONS RIVER — I am so looking forward to voting on Town Meeting day, March 4, in Bellows Falls.

I will be filling in those little ballot bubbles and casting my vote for the new slate of trustees running for the Rockingham Free Public Library: Doreen Aldrich, Carol Blackwood, David Gould, and Ray Massucco are the names to remember.

Finally, a way for the community to be heard. “Trustees You Can Trust” is their campaign slogan, and it sure rings true.

I hope you will join me in Bellows Falls on Election Day, or obtain a absentee ballot.

Your vote counts. This is how we can make a positive change for our library.

Voices

The power of protest

By
Mary McCallum

Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...

We have a well-founded fear based on firsthand experience

By
Timothy Belknap

Timothy Belknap describes himself as a "downtown resident and Brattleboro lover." BRATTLEBORO-The yes vote to...

‘Tropes and lies’

By
Eileen Hayes Arama

WEST TOWNSHEND-When I learned, as a girl, about the lead-up to Kristallnacht, I had thought...

Victimizing a merchant over poorly chosen words

By
Phillip Macracken

BRATTLEBORO-The headline made me curious enough to read this one person's opinion of a local...

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Brattleboro to apply for neighborhood designation

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 — Issue 544

The Town Planning Services department has started its application to a state program that offers incentives for new housing in downtown areas. The state's Neighborhood Development Area (NDA) designation provides permit and tax incentives to developers and communities that commit to building mixed-income housing in a downtown or village. Planning Technician Andrew Graminski, who presented the program to the Selectboard during its Jan. 7 meeting, said that the department has recently received feedback on its initial draft application to the...

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Voices

Elections, abortion rights, and climate change

By
Mike Mrowicki
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 — Issue 513

Women's Reproductive Freedom. Ethnic studies. Fair and impartial policing. Indigenous Peoples' Day. Firearm waiting periods. Checks and balances of government. These are just a few of the headline issues from the wide array of work from 2019, the first year of this biennium of the Vermont Legislature. Each House member serves on one committee; each Senate member, on two. Our work also entails staying on top of what all 26 House and Senate committees are up to. Our committee work...

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Arts

Photographer Nick Meyer exhibits ‘The Local’ series at Marlboro College

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 — Issue 532

Marlboro College's Snyder Center for the Visual Arts will host The Local, a series of photographs by Greenfield, Mass.-based photographer Nick Meyer. The series will be exhibited in the Snyder Gallery through Nov. 15, with an artist's talk on Nov. 8, and is free and open to the public. Meyer's images in The Local serve as a poignant portrait of the Greenfield community he lives in, imaging the economic insecurity and opioid abuse that affect the lives of its locals,

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