I am so sorry to lose Pat Smith. She was the voice of the Reformer for me, and always helpful.
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...
BRATTLEBORO-As described by Adam Grinold, a decade ago, Windham County had the second-oldest population in the state, people were leaving the area in high numbers, and wages languished below those of our neighbors. The executive director of the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation says that the county has turned a corner in the intervening time and has experienced an uptick in population and employee wages. The regional economy has also undergone more visible change over the past year, with some stark...
Recently, 18 students from the Collège Madame de Staël, in Geneva, Switzerland, arrived for the U.S. portion of the Brattleboro Union High School Swiss Exchange. The Swiss Exchange started in 1979, and since then several hundred BUHS and Swiss students have shared life in their respective communities, schools, and families. Home stays offer a unique opportunity to gain new perspective, both on the wider world and on one's own community and county. Just as importantly, many of those students who...
The art of Matthew Ivan Smith will be on display at the Wardsboro Public Library, 170 Main St., for the month of September during library hours. Smith is a “self-taught” artist and a grandson of the composer Ernest Bloch. He showed a remarkable gift in music early, but after spending his summers in Vermont, he became fascinated by the beauty around him. He began to draw in pencil on small pads - hills and trees at first, then adding a...
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