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...
Octavian “Yoshi” Manale has been named the new town manager. He will succeed Peter Elwell, who is retiring after six years in the post. Selectboard Chair Elizabeth “Liz” McLoughlin said at the Oct. 12 special meeting when the board unanimously approved Manale's contract that Elwell will leave big shoes to fill. “We really approached this selection process with trepidation because of the existing town manager,” she said. “What we found when we tried to list all the qualities we were...
PUTNEY-Brattleboro artist Ruth Shafer's soft sculpture show, "The Weight," will open at The Putney School on Friday, Jan. 10, and runs through March 1. There will be an opening reception at the Micheal S. Currier Center Gallery from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 10. "The Weight" features five fabric sculpture installations which explore the feminine body's place in the home, in art history, and in the ways the past becomes the future. By conflating the female form with furniture...
Watching history sadly repeat itself, I recently had the following scary thought: It wouldn't take a huge leap of my imagination to envision the Republican Party being willing to run Adolf Hitler as a presidential candidate if that would give them the power that they are so desperate to seize. Scientific studies have apparently shown that the human brain operates on a negative bias in order to survive, so it's an easy political card to play to get the scared,
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