BRATTLEBORO — Thank you for having ears for this story, and the wherewithal to share it with us all.
We are headed into what seems to be a hard winter in a land of hard winters. We have to talk about the homeless in our midst.
And do something.
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
The late Robert Gannett was a rare breed - and not just because he was both a direct descendant of his hometown of Brattleboro's namesake, Revolutionary War figure William Brattle, as well as the husband of a granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. Gannett held one of his southeastern Vermont district's two Senate seats from 1973 to 1992 - the last Republican to do so. In the three decades since Gannett retired, only Democrats have represented Windham County in the state...
NXT Gallery, 15 Kimball Hill, hosts the opening reception of "Dragon Land," an exhibition by artist and acupuncturist Sarah H. Paulson. The event will take place on Sunday, Nov. 19, from 4 to 6 p.m. "My art practice is performative," Paulson says in a news release. "I believe that performance, in its sacred form, has the capacity to bring the human being closest to what it means to be human. This sentiment is at the heart of all my work,
We are witnessing a unique and horrible phenomenon: the total denial of the story of American colonialism and the importance and horrors of the slave trade. The Republican party has made a decision that white children and youth (who seem to be the only children and youth they care at all about) are not to be exposed to any materials that might make them aware that our ancestors were not models of moral perfection, that might make them feel a...
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