BELLOWS FALLS — This is an amazing time to be a citizen journalist. Your coverage of how people have come together via social media about the Liberty Mill Justice Center is right on.
The mainstream media coverage of the LMJC project is also critical and helps us validate the development of this issue.
Thank you for your in-depth report of something very positive that has come out of this unpopular proposal.
Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
Several days after the end of the 2016 legislative session, Windham County Sen. Jeanette White still sounded tired. That's no doubt due to the normal wear and tear of the session's frantic final debates and deliberations. But the Putney Democrat also acknowledged deep disappointment about the failure of one of her key causes - marijuana legalization. White is seeking an eighth term in this year's elections. But if she returns to Montpelier, she's no longer sure she wants to lead...
In 2018, I traveled with a Florida-based United Church of Christ delegation to Pétion-Ville, a community on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haiti Partners, a remarkable organization that is changing lives multigenerationally - primarily through education - hosted us. I immediately thought about Brattleboro's interest in sister communities and wondered if Pétion-Ville might be a natural fit. Having studied southern African history for two decades, I'm aware of the brutality that can result from a society's having been colonized. A...
Stone Church Arts presents two world-class musicians, pianist Virginia Eskin and mandolinist August Watters, on Saturday, Feb. 25, at Immanuel Episcopal Church, the stone church on the hill at 20 Church St. Watters is a multi-stylistic, improvising mandolinist, composer/arranger, and teacher in Boston. His work as an interpreter, improviser, composer, and arranger bridges contemporary classical music, jazz, folk-music traditions, and the historical concert-mandolin repertoire. He is the founder of the New England Mandolin Ensemble, Boston Mandolins, the Festival of Mandolin...
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