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...
Wet snow pelts the windows of Susan McMahon's second-floor office at Scott Farm. The new executive director of the Landmark Trust USA extracts three shriveled rose hips - the color of raw sienna and the size of a ping-pong ball - from a cardboard box. Medlars, she calls them. “Here, you squish them like this,” she said. “It tastes like cinnamon apples.” The unglamorous heritage fruit is popular in Iran and Turkey, explained McMahon. The mushy (edible) flesh looks like...
I first met Michelle Bos-Lun in 2018 when I was running my campaign to be a state representative for the Windham-4 district. Michelle and I found plenty of common ground when it came to issues surrounding racial justice, mental health services, refugees and immigration, and helping the most marginalized Vermonters in Windham County. Beyond the policy issues, Michelle is also an extremely hard-working and dedicated person. She has a seemingly endless amount of energy when it comes to reaching out...
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present singer, songwriter, and guitarist Michael Johnson, plus the Vermont-based Americana duo Laura Molinelli and Ben Campbell, at Next Stage on Friday, July 8, at 7:30 p.m. Michael Johnson began playing guitar at 13 and, over the next 10 years, he won an international talent contest, recorded for Epic Records, studied classical guitar with Graciano Tarrago at Liceo Conservatory in Barcelona, Spain, and joined the Chad Mitchell Trio for a year, spending some...
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