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.
Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
BRATTLEBORO-The Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) annual Galbraith Lecture, is a tradition begun by world-renowned economist and longtime Newfane summer resident John Kenneth Galbraith, an early founder of the organization. That tradition has been continued by his son, former diplomat Peter Galbraith, of Townshend, whose talks have always been newsy and full of inside knowledge on U.S. foreign policy. This year's will likely be in that same vein as he shares the platform with another Vermont foreign policy expert, Tim...
As an employee who works in downtown Brattleboro, and as a sibling who has watched their brother struggle through addiction and recovery, I am hopeful about the conversations beginning around Brattleboro becoming a site for an overdose prevention center (OPC). This touches close to my heart, because for many years, I lived in fear of receiving a phone call that my brother had died from an overdose. That is not an experience I would wish on anyone. However, it has...
BRATTLEBORO-Filmmaker Andy Reichsman of Marlboro will visit the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on Thursday, May 2, at 7 p.m. to share his story of reclaiming family artwork stolen by the Nazi-aligned Yugoslavian government during World War II. Nearly 80 years after the war ended, Reichsman became the first person to recover artwork that was looted during the Holocaust in Croatia, which was part of Yugoslavia for most of the 20th century. Three Croatian museums returned paintings, lithographs, and...
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