BRATTLEBORO — I am very sorry this happened, I really am. Nick Widomski sounds like a really remarkable young man.
But one does not just “find oneself” in the path of an oncoming train. There was a sidewalk going in the same direction not many yards away from the train bridge.
Please, everyone, do not play on the tracks or use them for a shortcut.
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...
Among the small group waiting to board Amtrak's southbound Vermonter here on a recent afternoon, no one was toting a bicycle. But that could change soon, as Amtrak has begun a carry-on bike service for its daily trains between St. Albans and Washington, D.C. It's a pilot project spurred by Amtrak's work with biking advocates and state officials. And while initial space for bikes is limited, some are expecting that to change relatively quickly - in part due to expected...
Editor's note: Vermont is obligated under its state constitution to provide equal education opportunity to its students, as determined by a 1997 landmark state Supreme Court decision, Brigham v. State. (You'll see this decision referred to in news reports about school funding as “the Brigham decision.”) As part of reforming the state education funding system to comply with that decision, the state created a fund for collecting tax money from communities and redistributing it to school districts based on student...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present an evening of traditional and contemporary Scottish and fiddle music by duos Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas and San Miguel Fraser (Galen Fraser & Maria San Miguel) on Sunday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. at Next Stage. The musical partnership between Alasdair Fraser, "the Michael Jordan of Scottish fiddling," and Californian cellist, Natalie Haas, has been described as "spanning the full spectrum between intimate chamber music and ecstatic dance energy," according to their...
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