I thought Vermont had more sense than this. We, the people of the 17 towns of southern New Hampshire, have fought the Kinder Morgan pipeline and do not want it in our state.
What is wrong with the so-called “green state”?
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...
For the first time since he was elected to the Brattleboro Selectboard in 2013, David Schoales faced a contested race. For the first time since she was elected to a one-year seat to the board last year, Elizabeth McLoughlin was trying to win re-election, as she went after the three-year seat that had been won twice by Schoales. Two worthy incumbents trying to win one three-year seat on the Selectboard, with another newcomer, Rikki Risatti, also in the electoral mix.
The nonprofit arts venue Epsilon Spires will host two events on the evening of Friday, Sept. 2, during downtown's monthly Gallery Walk. Starting at 5 p.m., there will be an opening celebration for “Mundane Monsters,” a multimedia exhibit by Danish artist Kristoffer Ørum, followed at 8 p.m. by an outdoor screening of two early documentaries about skateboarding and surfing as part of the Backlot Cinema Series. Ørum, whose work has been shown extensively throughout Denmark and internationally, uses a combination...
Brattleboro, like much of the United States, is all too often putting the subjective feelings of the individual ahead of the rights and health of the community. I have generally voted Democrat my entire adult life. However, in recent times, a frightening portion of the left has become so extreme that it is at times on parity with the extremist right. I find the extreme right such as Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump to be abhorrent. Their bigotry, lies,
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