This is to all the anti-Vermont Yankee people: What about the weather station they generously pay for on the two-way radio?
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...
With a number of unsolved arson and burglary cases in the region, concerned residents filled the seats on the main floor and balcony of the Town Hall on Monday night. All eyes were focused on three state troopers, Commissioner of Public Safety Keith Flynn, and State Rep. Oliver Olsen, I-Jamaica, the legislator who brought them to town. After approximately 12 suspicious fires in 10 years, and 17 burglaries in just one month, the community's patience and sense of safety had...
Afghanistan is creeping back into the news. Last month, it was the target of the obscenely named “mother of all bombs,” the largest non-nuclear bomb yet used by the U.S., which managed to kill 30 or 40 ISIS fighters. The press and pundits on both sides of the aisle were pretty impressed with the size of the bomb, and our new president got some shock-and-awe cred. More recently, a new U.S. Inspector General's office report paints a bleak picture of...
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of Celtic music by Kalos (Jeremiah McLane, Eric McDonald, and Ryan McKasson), with bagpiper Dan Houghton and harpist Rachel Clemente, on Friday, Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m. Kalos is described in a news release as “a trio of interpreters and composers of Celtic roots music [that] explores the dark corners floating on its edges, delivering an alluring musical complexity full of spontaneity and joyful exuberance.” “McDonald, McKasson, and McLane draw...
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