WESTMINSTER — Windham County Sheriff Keith Clark has had an issue with truth and transparency in a lot of his public jobs. The Liberty Mill Justice Center is him at work again. It's all about him and his desires. What about the people? His lack of local concern tells a bigger story.
Be wary of Sheriff Clark and the way he does business. The LMJC project is a great idea - if placed properly outside of this beautiful village that we call home.
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...
Peter Elwell, Brattleboro's town manager, sat down to talk the morning after the Selectboard covered a meaty agenda, which ranged from discussing a new dairy processing plant's plans to come to town to fundraising for the skatepark to Act 46. “They had a lot of ground to cover,” Elwell said. We started with the topic that intrigued me the most, because, well, it was my radio show. That topic: a new dairy processing plant: Culture Made Vermont, which plans to...
Now that I'm no longer a regular reporter at this newspaper, it's probably OK for me to admit this in public: One of my favorite assignments was interviewing Lester Dunklee. Oh, but I sure was intimidated. (Not that that stopped me, of course.) I moved to Brattleboro in 1994. About a year later, I got a job slinging coffee at Mocha Joe's. One afternoon, I was working with former owner Ellen Tucker-Capy, and she said she had to run an...
Write Action announces Poems in the Time of Covid, a collection of poems by 37 poets from the area and beyond. A launch party will take place at the River Garden Marketplace, a new venue opened this month by the Whetstone Station restaurant and brewery, at 157 Main St. on Wednesday, Oct. 6, from 5 to 7 p.m. The anthology grew out of Poems Around Town (PAT), a project of Write Action, with support from Time to Write and the...
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