PUTNEY — Thank you, Joyce Marcel, for this wonderfully written and accurate tribute to my mother.
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...
The Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) School Board continues to respond to sexual misconduct claims against former Brattleboro Union High School English teacher Robert “Zeke” Hecker. In a Viewpoint in The Commons [“No more secrecy,” Viewpoint, Aug. 11], Mindy Haskins Rogers exposed a pattern of Hecker's behavior with students, both in and out of the classroom, and material from a 2009 Brattleboro Police Department investigation. That inquiry uncovered and quoted from a letter from Hecker to a survivor where he...
Here is a thought experiment for Vermonters: Picture, if you can, Daniel Banyai, owner of the Slate Ridge property in West Pawlet, as a Black man. How long do you think an illegal firearms and militia training school would last? And how would the national media portray a Black man offering classes in carjacking? That alone would be an international story for the far right to share: “The snowflake government of the state of Vermont is allowing a thug to...
An evening of community contra dances will take place at the Evening Star Grange in Dummerston Center, on Saturday, Sept. 16, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Andy Davis will be calling the dance. He will be joined by Flicker, which features Hilary Weitzner and Ellery Witman on fiddles and Avery Witman on cello. The band is from Brattleboro, and the Village Dance Series is honored to open the season with this extraordinary group of young musicians. All proceeds will be...
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