BRATTLEBORO — Integrity is a rare word these days. Susan Keese had it!
Lasse Jeppesen Schmidt, a native of Denmark, is a former journalist. BRATTLEBORO-I will be frank...
BRATTLEBORO-It was no April Fool's Day Joke. On April 1, five Administration for Children regional...
Moss Kahler has served as recycling coordinator in Brattleboro. BRATTLEBORO-The Selectboard members are facing difficult...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-At no other time since its inception in 1970 has preserving what remains of...
BRATTLEBORO-Vermont is among the top states in the nation in terms of civic engagement, but only because the rest of the nation is doing worse. That was the crux of the message that Vermont Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas and members of her staff brought to Brooks Memorial Library on Jan. 15 on the first stop of their Civic Health Index Tour. The Civic Health Index measures the health of a state's civic engagement by dividing it into into...
Marlboro Music's fourth weekend of concerts at Marlboro College offers 21 resident artists in diverse programs that offer works by Debussy, Dvorak, Shostakovich, and Beethoven as well as Unkind Songs for alto and viola with Sara Couden and Kim Kashkashian by Petr Eben, who was a leading Czech composer, and Voices of Angels by 2017 Composer-in-Residence Brett Dean. It is one of five Dean works being explored this summer, according to a news release. The Saturday, Aug. 5, 8 p.m.
BRATTLEBORO-I recently challenged Ture Nelson, the Republican candidate for Vermont attorney general, to explain what seemed to me like unquestioning support for all controversial police actions. Having personally experienced, as crime victims, the frustration of the local prosecutor's catch-and-release program, both my wife and I fully get it that we have prosecutors who don't want to prosecute criminals. (In fact, our local state's attorney's office's "victim advocate" seems to think his job is to put us in our place and...
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