This is to all the anti-Vermont Yankee people: What about the weather station they generously pay for on the two-way radio?
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...
A woman's place is in the House...of Representatives. Vermont made history on Election Day as Senate President Pro Tem Becca Balint, D-Brattleboro, cruised to an easy victory in her race for the state's lone Congressional seat. Balint became the first woman - and the first openly gay woman - Vermont has sent to Congress, when she trounced Republican Liam Madden of Rockingham. Vermont had been the last state to never have had a woman represent it on Capitol Hill. With...
As I sat down to the first night Passover Seder I attended on my campus, I was offered a sheet with four recommended discussion questions. One question stood out to my friends and me: “What enslaves you?” We laughed over it at the time, at the sometimes-dark Jewish humor of the discussion of how oppressed our ancestors were, talk that always comes up with Passover. Yet, this is a worthwhile question to pose. We sit down yearly to remember the...
Abhisek Lahiri, a celebrated virtuoso of the 25-stringed Indian lute, known as the Sarod, will give a special performance at Stone Church Arts in Bellows Falls on Sept. 7 to kick off his 2019 U.S. Tour. Lahiri will be accompanied on Tabla by Subrata Bhattacharya, also a master musician who has played with many of the giants of Indian classical music. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. and is open to all ages. Tickets are $25 for premium seating...
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