BRATTLEBORO — Integrity is a rare word these days. Susan Keese had it!
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
BRATTLEBORO-What a depressing time to celebrate Independence Day, as No. 47 and his obedient and...
Sarah Ellis is a writer and mental health advocate who grew up in Brattleboro and...
BRATTLEBORO-Analysis of Brattleboro's Charter Revision Survey reveals growing dissatisfaction with the current Representative Town Meeting...
Brattleboro 12-year-old Little League All Stars defeated arch-rival Bennington in the seventh and deciding game on Tuesday by a score of 3-1. Brattleboro now moves on to the Vermont State Little League World Series this weekend in St. Johnsbury. The game was scoreless for four innings, but Brattleboro broke through in the bottom of the fourth inning to take a 2-0 lead. Brattleboro scored their third run in the bottom of the fifth with Tyler Millerick's home run over the...
On Saturday, March 3, from 7 to 10 p.m., at the Vermont Jazz Center, the Brattleboro Area Jewish Community will host a dance party featuring The Butterfly Swing Band (Joe LoMonaco, Scott Sizer, Ron Kelley, Mark Anagnostopulos, Lynn Lovell). According to a news release, the “fun for all ages” will include a musical variety show, a costume contest with prizes, and drinks, food, and pastries (including hamantaschen, the special Purim delicacy). Entertainment includes Bard Owl, the acoustic duo of Breeze...
Voting in the United States has again become a proprietary right, as equal access to the ballot box is not open to all. The history of voting in our country is one of exclusion, inclusion, and suppression. Initially, the Constitution excluded women, slaves, minorities, Native Americans, and white men who did not own property. It remanded the electoral process to the states, thus creating a complex, confusing, and an unequal system vulnerable to local machinations and prejudices. Throughout U.S. history,
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