ATHENS — “This is not normal,” a New York City resident observed the other day about the polar vortex, snow, ice, then spring-like days followed by more snow and more ice. “The Earth is off its axis or something.”
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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...
BRATTLEBORO-"It's not about ordinance or no ordinance," said Mel Motel, co-director of Restorative Justice Programs at Interaction: Youth Services and Restorative Justice. "It's about a third way. What can we build instead?" Motel was one of five panelists who proposed alternatives to the town's recently adopted Acceptable Community Conduct ordinance at a Nov. 18 public information meeting at Brooks Memorial Library. Opponents of the ordinance have obtained signatures from the 5% of registered voters necessary to trigger a Special Representative...
When gauging the risk level for a domestic violence victim, certain details always raise red flags: the presence of a gun, threats of violence, strangulation, and any past physical harm. But while such danger requires the most careful safety planning, it doesn't necessarily create the deepest wound, nor does it leave the longest-lasting scars for survivors. Less visible, but no less potent, is the emotional abuse that also tends to spew from an abuser's mouth. This spoken harm, which can...
Organizers of the 22nd annual Brattleboro Literary Festival say this year's event "will tell the story of us - stories about who we are, how we are surviving, and what issues are we facing as humans with a focus on people who are marginalized." The festival's nearly 40 indoor programs during the weekend of Oct. 13-15 will feature nonfiction from Tracy Kidder, Will Schwalbe, Jonathan Rosen, Neil King Jr., Martha McPhee, Chloé Cooper Jones, and Jeff Sharlet; fiction from Kelly...
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