Brattleboro is getting a shining Starr who has led, inspired, and ignited Building Brighter Futures for Broome, an agency that offers early childhood literacy strategies and supports!
Thank you, Starr LaTronica, for sharing your gifts and passion!
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...
The West River Education District (WRED) School Board is looking for public input regarding task force reports that might include removing high school students from Leland & Gray, among other possibilities. “The West River board is engaging in some fruitful conversations about the future of the school district,” said Windham Central Supervisory Union (WCSU) Superintendent William Anton, of which the WRED is a part. “With declining enrollment and increasing upward pressure on a tax rate, the board understands that engaging...
If you are like me, each day as you hear the news, you hang your head in despair over what is happening to children and families at the United States border and wish there were something you could do. If you agree with the following statement, please share it in any way you can think of with everyone you can possibly think of. Hopefully it will make a difference. “To every public official, person with influence or position, and citizen...
A special exhibit of original paintings by Will Moses, great-grandson of world-famous artist Grandma Moses, is now at Vermont Artisan Designs in Brattleboro. Fifteen original oil paintings by Moses are on display in the special exhibit, which includes books that he has illustrated and jigsaw puzzles of some of his works. Moses, who lives in the family farmstead in Eagle Bridge, N.Y., was very young when his great-grandmother died at 101. She was considered a primitive painter who began her...
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