WEST BRATTLEBORO — Beautifully written! It's easy to lose sight of the ones we do help when we focus our hearts on the ones we can't.
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...
For the second straight year, the annual Representative Town Meeting will be a virtual affair. This year's meeting will be held Saturday, March 19, starting at 8:30 a.m., via Zoom. The proposed fiscal year 2023 General Fund budget includes total revenues and expenditures of $20,063,642, an increase of $379,651, or 1.9 percent, over the fiscal year 2022 budget. Notable cost decreases from FY22 to FY23 include a transfer to the Capital Fund (down $91,000), debt service payments (down $149,775), and...
BELLOWS FALLS-"Finding Hope Within" is the theme of a collective art exhibit on display at the Rockingham Free Public Library (RFPL) until the end of September. All of the featured artists are women currently incarcerated in Vermont's Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility. Born out of frustration during a Covid lockdown at the prison, Heather Newcomb of VT Works for Women, which is based at the facility, decided to offer a challenge to the prisoners: Create an artwork that expresses "Finding Hope...
I found BDCCs recent commentary, written in opposition to the town's consideration of a 1-percent local-option tax for property-tax relief, to be quite scattered and confusing. In it, we are told that “another local tax is a short-term and shortsighted fix to a decades-long problem.” But no one imagines this revenue to “fix” anything - it's meant to shift a small amount of burden away from property taxpayers, who now pay 85 percent of the entire operating needs of our...
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