TOWNSHEND — If you were at the Bellows Falls Village Meeting, it was obvious the 2-to-1 margin of the budget vote was all firefighters who voted that budget back in - and only a handful of citizens.
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
BRATTLEBORO-In a marathon 10-hour session (not counting lunch and a few short breaks), Representative Town Meeting (RTM) members sent a proposed $24.7 million budget back to the drawing board in a vote of 76–57. That budget included about $19 million in property taxes and was expected to cause tax bills to rise by about $320 annually for those with median household incomes. More than 130 members started the meeting on Saturday, March 22, many newly elected. So did three new...
How to make art more visible in Brattleboro? What is already taking place to create this vision? For many, this isn't a new conversation and there have been many attempts to answer these questions in many ways. On Tuesday, Sept. 26, at 5:30 p.m., the Arts Council of Windham County is working with a few other partners to explore this question during a potluck at the River Garden on 157 Main St. The evening will be facilitated by Jon Potter,
Autumn comes and boasts that elegant slate blue to hang a backdrop for the changing leaves. And each time it comes, I'm shaken by the harbingers of winter, touched by mortality. The windows close; socks and shoes go on, a fire is built, and it's time. Time to go inward again. Each year that I do this folding in, I'm aware that I have a little less time to do what I need to do before winter. I don't feel...
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