BELLOWS FALLS — Please cease all quoting of Deb Wright. She is simply a nuisance. Amplifying her rants does not help, in any sense. She should have no spotlight.
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...
Isabel Williams grew up knowing she was adopted. She remembers the day she met JoAnn Williams, the woman who raised her and her sister, Ana, and moved them to town when they were children. What Isabel did not find out until later in life: That the circumstances surrounding her and Ana's adoption more closely resembled a kidnapping. Now the Williams sisters are in contact with their birth mother. And they want their story known. From 1979 to 1992, El Salvador...
BRATTLEBORO-On Thursday, Nov. 7, Brattleboro and surrounding villages experienced an internet outage caused by a local fire. Many of us around town rely on the internet to do our jobs (whether we work remotely or not). I want to give a big thank you to the Brooks Memorial Library (and the town) for having better-than-commercial internet access available for free to anyone who walked in. Dozens of people were quietly working on their laptops, able to go to work or...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) presents an online talk by photographer Rachel Portesi, via Zoom and Facebook Live, on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. The talk is presented in connection with the exhibit “Rachel Portesi: Hair Portraits,” a series of tintype photographs on view at BMAC through Feb. 14, 2021. A link to attend the talk will be available at brattleboromuseum.org. Curated by BMAC Chief Curator Mara Williams, the exhibit “reflects on the fact that since the...
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