TOWNSHEND — I am also one of the residents of West River Valley Senior Housing, and all I can say to this letter is, “Amen.”
After the fire, I went to Pine Heights in Brattleboro, and was treated exactly the same as the writer described. The staff members there were wonderful, and I will never forget all the employees there whom I now consider my friends.
Thank you, Pine Heights.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...
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The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
A carbon monoxide detector in the basement of a multi-family dwelling is being credited with saving the lives of 16 people, after a malfunctioning boiler tripped the alarm. According to a news release from Brattleboro Fire Chief Michael Bucossi, firefighters responded at midnight on Nov. 7 to a call from a tenant at 11 Pleasant St. that a carbon monoxide alarm was sounding. Upon arrival, firefighters entered the basement, and the gas meter that they were carrying with them registered...
I'm disheartened that the politicking for president takes up so much bandwidth, while interest, concern, and planning for Town Meeting takes up so little, especially when what we decide at Town Meeting can have more direct effect on how we live, both individually and in community. I'm not saying that national politics aren't important; they are. But while people in Washington are grandstanding at best - and grinding our democracy into the ground at worst - we can accomplish important...
The Actors Theatre Playhouse presents Vern Thiessen's Shakespeare's Will, a one-woman presentation featuring Wendy Almeida as Anne Hathaway speaking her mind on the day of the funeral for her husband, William Shakespeare. There are four performances only: on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 7, 8, 14, and 15, at 7:30 p.m., promptly. Very little is actually known about William Shakespeare and his wife of 34 years. But this much we do know: Anne was 26 years old and pregnant when she...
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