BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro has been fortunate to have Jerry Carbone, a leader and gentleman, at the helm of its library.
Now for his golf game: perhaps a little more time devoted to the game will pick things up a bit.
Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
The Selectboard has endorsed Groundworks Collaborative's $500,000 grant application to the state's Community Development Block Grant program (CDBG). If granted by the state Agency of Commerce and Community Development, the funds will support the nonprofit organization's efforts to build a new facility as a shelter and for its programs at 54 South Main St. [“Groundworks buys land for a new facility,” News, Jan. 30]. CDBG funds are federal monies that are administered by the state, but a municipality must sponsor...
A proposal was announced on Jan. 2 for a way to interrupt the chain of command for illegal orders to start a war against Iran. It was widely predicted that Donald Trump would start a new war in order to distract people from his impeachment trial. Now, two days later, he has started the war by assassinating a general in Iran. This is a flagrant act of war and a violation of international law and U.S. law. Though not in...
Foreign Film Fridays (formerly French Film Fridays) at the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery, 139 Main St., pops up again Friday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m., with Federico Fellini's masterpiece 8 1/2 . Starring Marcello Mastroianni as a film director whose talents flounder in his obsessive pursuit of the “ideal woman,” 8 1/2 is a brilliant mixture of comedy and drama, surrealism and realism. According to a news release, “8 1/2 brings to life the ways the protagonist's egocentrism and machismo...
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