It's about time! I've had enough of institutions like the Brattleboro Retreat stealing our hard-earned tax dollars in the name of “mental health.”
We should all applaud whistleblower Thomas Joseph and anyone like him. Well done!
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
Gesturing toward a vegetation-covered lump of land in the middle of an abnormally shallow Townshend Lake, Craig Hunt observed, “Those islands out there - they're new.” Hunt was speaking on the morning of Nov. 19 to an audience that included staff from all three of Vermont's congressional offices, two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers representatives, and two state legislators. All had come to hear about two pressing issues - the lack of payments in lieu of taxes for Townshend Dam,
The BUHS Music Department announces its 2022 musical, Something Rotten! with book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrell, music and lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick, and conceived by Karey Kirkpatrick and Wayne Kirkpatrick. Something Rotten! will take place on Thursday, April 7, and Friday, April 8, at 7 p.m.; and Saturday, April 9, at 2 p.m. in the Brattleboro Union High School Auditorium. Set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit...
I think of myself as a lifelong environmentalist, from participating in the first Earth Day and in education about nuclear power via Seabrook activists in the early '70s, through today, when we are at the major decision time regarding the healthy future of the planet. In those many years of observing presidential politics, I have never felt that we had a candidate who truly understood the importance of making real and lasting changes in our economic system in order to...
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