This story was a great read, and it brought back many memories.
I'm looking forward to the Putney Grade School reunion, and seeing all of you. Thank you for all your hard work.
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...
The future is looking brighter at Bradley House. A December merger with Brattleboro's Holton Home has brought stability to the longtime residential care facility. And a much-needed structural overhaul and expansion project - which will add seven rooms to Bradley House, as well as new dining facilities - is scheduled to start later this year. On July 6, Gov. Peter Shumlin traveled to Brattleboro to announce more than $2.8 million in community-development grants for residential and commercial projects across the...
In 1973, the Andrews Inn opened in Bellows Falls and became a legendary dance club, restaurant, hotel, and gathering place for southern Vermont's LGBTQ+ community for more than a decade. Fifty years later, in honor of the people and culture that shaped the inn's legacy, the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) hosts a day-long celebration of the inn on Saturday, Sept. 23. In partnership with Vermont Folklife and Out in the Open, BMAC is inviting visitors to drop in...
Vermont is known as a progressive safe haven. However, some of our citizens struggle to connect personal experience to this sentiment. The purpose of publicizing these feelings is not to throw shade at the national progressive movement that Senator Bernie Sanders is trying to foster, but to point out that Vermonters in marginalized positions - be they poor, disabled, LGBTQ, people of color, indigenous, immigrant, or non-mainstream in other facets of identity - help to create this state and make...
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