BRATTLEBORO — I agree the wording on the ballot seemed biased.
The issue is the amendments were poor options for the most part, regardless of how they were presented.
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...
There are three Civil War battlefields where monuments have been erected to honor the courage of the First Vermont Brigade. Two of them, Antietam in Maryland, and Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, are well-known in the history books, but are battles in which the First saw limited action. The third, the Battle of the Wilderness, is not as well-known to those with a casual interest in the Civil War. But in that battle, the First suffered more casualties than did any other...
The Sarasa Ensemble offers two concerts at the Brattleboro Music Center which celebrate the young orphan girls under Vivaldi's tutelage, whose virtuosic talent put the composer's name and the city of Venice on the proverbial map. Performers of “Vivaldi's Orphan Girls: Virtuosi della Pietà” include soprano Kristen Watson; violinists Susanna Ogata, Susannah Foster, and Keats Dieffenbach; Jenny Stirling on the viola; cellists Jennifer Morsches and Timothy Merton; and John McKean on the harpsichord. The all-Vivaldi program will include Sinfonia in...
Frederic Noyes: Hooray! It's about time we settled this and moved on to other social and environmental justice issues. Jennifer Carroll Cahill: Let's call it “marriage” now, and leave off the “gay.” We are all one. Yippee! Fran Lynggaard Hansen: I live in China where I've seen people rejected and discriminated against based on their sexual orientation. In August I am moving to Cairo, where one can be stoned to death or hung if one is gay. My hope is...
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