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I'm looking forward to the Putney Grade School reunion, and seeing all of you. Thank you for all your hard work.
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...
As a contractor, David Ross is used to relying on his carpenter's level. But on his latest job - transforming the historic Newfane Railroad Station into a new West River Railroad museum - Ross is learning to live with all the idiosyncrasies of a 136-year-old building. Preservation, he believes, requires a light touch. “I hope that we can get back to the feeling that the building had when it was used,” Ross said. “In the ideal world, [future visitors] wouldn't...
Revolutions rarely are fomented by the people at the bottom. They're fomented by people who sense that things could be different. And that is true whether the revolution is forward looking or backward. What President Donald Trump has shrewdly fueled is a backward revolution, rallying people who vividly sense how things used to be different. They are neither the down-and-out nor minorities. The angry people at Trump rallies are largely white, blue-collar men with little college education, supported by wives...
Dummerston-based artist Linda Rubinstein makes one-of-a-kind books, figurative fabric sculpture, word-and-image journals, and maps of places she loves. An exhibit at the Dummerston Historical Society is centered on selections from her image and word journals about life in her chosen hometown of 45 years. She has just completed a map, Ode to Miller Road, that will be exhibited for the first time at the Historical Society on Middle Road in Dummerston Center. Also being presented is a sampling of the...
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