BRATTLEBORO — I hope we can encourage Opal Robinson to get back into her writing or her art - it is therapeutic.
My hope is that the bullying in the local schools will somehow be stopped.
So glad she's home safe. Good luck to her and the family.
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...
CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...
The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
Town Clerk Hilary Francis says petitions for Brattleboro Town and Town School District Officers and Town Meeting Members are now available. Town elections will be Tuesday, March 6, and the Annual Representative Town Meeting is Saturday, March 24. Petitions for Town Officers must contain at least 30 valid signatures of registered Brattleboro voters and be filed in the Town Clerk's office no later than 5 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 29, in order to have their names placed on the ballot.
In response to a recent commentary by a retired nuclear worker in the Rutland Herald, here is a short response from someone not in the industry of why nuclear is not carbon-free. Note that this response is short, because you do not need many words to speak the truth. Nuclear is not the answer to climate change. Valid concerns exist about global warming caused by carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants. Yet production of uranium fuel also results in greenhouse-gas...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-"Details: Fifty Years of Photography and Mobiles" by Doug Frantz will be on view at All Souls Church in the West Village Meeting House from Saturday, Sept. 7, through Oct. 29. The public is invited to an opening reception on Sept. 7, from 2 to 5 p.m. There will also be an artist's talk, with accompanying digital slides on Thursday, Oct. 3, at 7 p.m. Frantz received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kalamazoo College, and since then has...
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