BRATTLEBORO — This is a great story and tribute to Marty Rancourt. I can say I've known him since he was born.
Good luck to him as he opens a new door.
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...
My guest, Carolyn Partridge, is the Windham-3 state representative in the Vermont House, where she represents the towns of Windham, Grafton, Rockingham, Athens, and Brookline, as well as “a real small slice of North Westminster in what we lovingly call Gageville.” A member of the House since 1999, she has chaired what is now the House Committee on Agriculture and Forestry for 11 years. Partridge raises sheep on her small farm, spinning and dying yarn for retail sale. A longtime...
I also appreciated the article by Joyce Marcel on housing supply and homelessness. In 2022, for family reasons, I tried to find an apartment in Brattleboro with zero responses to inquiries. Now, I've been there enough to know you are not rude. Inundated? Call this a casual data point on your supply constraints. I can only imagine how hard it is at lower incomes. Another angle on housing is transportation. My sense of Vermont is that, despite the concern to...
Post Oil Solutions, in partnership with the Arts Council of Windham County, seeks 20 artists to create paintings that explore climate change, for which they will receive $175. “The Art of Climate Change” is an exhibition of artwork exploring this planetary crisis - what it is, how it affects us physically and psychologically, and how some are working to adapt to it or help stop it. Post Oil Solutions says in a press release that this project is one way...
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