TOWNSHEND — I would disagree with Barbra Garmon. She should talk to the residents of East Jamaica and the West River Valley.
All of Townshend and the outlying towns know about a drug dealer who has been there for 33 long years and is still going strong with his sales.
It's time for the law to take action.
Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...
Timothy Belknap describes himself as a "downtown resident and Brattleboro lover." BRATTLEBORO-The yes vote to...
WEST TOWNSHEND-When I learned, as a girl, about the lead-up to Kristallnacht, I had thought...
BRATTLEBORO-The headline made me curious enough to read this one person's opinion of a local...
My guest, Carolyn Partridge, is the Windham-3 state representative in the Vermont House, where she represents the towns of Windham, Grafton, Rockingham, Athens, and Brookline, as well as “a real small slice of North Westminster in what we lovingly call Gageville.” A member of the House since 1999, she has chaired what is now the House Committee on Agriculture and Forestry for 11 years. Partridge raises sheep on her small farm, spinning and dying yarn for retail sale. A longtime...
In the 1960s the Republican party formed a “Southern strategy” that sought to attract southern, white conservatives by appealing to their racial resentment around the civil rights gains made in the 1950s and 1960s. The presidential campaigns of Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon were among the most notable. In 1980, Ronald Reagan, the revered icon of the Republican party, launched his presidential campaign just a few miles from Philadelphia, Miss., the site where the infamous 1964 civil rights murders took...
On Friday, June 9, at 5 p.m., the Brattleboro Literary Festival's monthly Literary Cocktail Hour series presents former three-term U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky talking about his new book, Jersey Breaks. Register for this online event at bit.ly/LitCocktail31. In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. According to Pinsky, he descended from a bootlegger grandfather, an athletic...
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