DUMMERSTON — It's sad when you're a devoted employee for decades and when you leave it's no big thing to an employer.
People wonder why no one wants to work at one place for long.
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...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-Since October 2022, more than 600 refugees and asylum seekers have been resettled in Windham and Bennington counties. Then came Jan. 20 and, in the words of Joe Wiah of the Ethiopian Community Development Council (EDCD), "things have changed." With the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, ECDC and nine other refugee resettlement agencies around the U.S. saw much of their funding from the U.S. State Department disappear as resettlement programs were halted. In ECDC's case, Wiah said they...
What happens when a young stranger with a secret stumbles into an isolated, small town that feels like the whole world to its inhabitants, and catches the attention of the young barmaid and a gaggle of local girls? The answer is pure comedy. In 1907, Irish playwright John Synge shocked Dublin with his wildly funny drama set in rural Ireland. He called it “Playboy of the Western World” back when “playboy” meant a fun, athletic young man and the Western...
It will come as no surprise that Liz Cheney is not on my short list of politicians I admire or wish to see in Congress. But she has done the right thing in calling out the “big lie” and promising to do all she can to keep Donald Trump away from the White House, literally or in terms of his influence over a terribly broken party. She is a canary in the coal mine. Would that others had the courage...
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