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May the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center's purchase inspire others to treasure history and not rebuild so fast. Thank you for sharing this piece.
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...
Windham County's organic dairy farmers are counting their blessings that they were not shipping milk to Horizon Organic, which announced that its producers in the state will lose their contracts by the end of August. The Danone-owned company said it would end nearly 90 contracts in the Northeast. Of those farms, 28 are in Vermont, including those in nearby Bennington County. The company cited “growing transportation and operational challenges in the dairy industry, particularly in the Northeast.” “We greatly value...
A community contra dance will take place at the Evening Star Grange in Dummerston Center on Saturday, Sept. 15, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Calling the dance will be Marguerite Durant. Music will be played by fiddler Amy Cann and friends. The Village Dance Series provides an opportunity for families and friends to come together to enjoy one of New England's revered traditional pastimes. Prior dance experience isn't necessary, as all the dances are taught. Although the dances are geared...
Forty years ago, employees of the General Services Administration dragged me down a hall by my hair and pulled the woman I was with by the underarms into an elevator from outside the cell block where our friends had been put. The story starts back in Boston, Mass., sometime between Christmas 1980, and New Year's the next week, when I found myself speaking at a press conference from the State House in Boston recommending that other young men not register...
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