BRATTLEBORO — Shela Linton has always been awesome for Brattleboro. She wants to empower other people.
In light of this kind of commitment, activism becomes clear as humanitarianism.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
In the early 1960s, a young man from Georgia came to town to pick apples at Green Mountain Orchard. Vermont gave Curtis Tuff a place where he felt loved and accepted. And Tuff gave Vermont the gift of more than five decades of great barbecue at Curtis' All American Bar-B-Q. On Oct. 16, two longtime Putney residents who are big fans of Curtis Tuff and his food, state Rep. Mike Mrowicki and state Sen. Jeanette White, surprised him with a...
To celebrate the coming of spring, and to benefit the Brattleboro Women's Chorus, the Vermont Jazz Center is hosting a Bayou-themed dance party with three local dance bands. The event on Sunday, April 7, from 5 to 8 p.m., will present music hailing from the Louisiana Bayou to the streets of Brazil and from points all over the Afro-Creole culture sphere. Featured will be two of Brattleboro's signature New Orleans roots music ensembles, Bayou X and the Celebration Brass Band,
BRATTLEBORO-David Hogg (of Parkland, Florida fame) has been making waves as vice chair of the National Democratic Party. Like many of us, he's noticed that his party has long underperformed relative to the popularity of its purported positions. One might have expected Dems to have indulged in some serious soul searching long before this moment of crisis. Unfortunately, the powers that have kept our Congress in check for most of my lifetime, making sure that issues relating human and environmental...
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