BRATTLEBORO — It sounds to me like Patrick Leahy doesn't want to be a senator from Vermont anymore.
BRATTLEBORO-For the Brattleboro voters, the March 4 ballot is about more than just a symbolic...
PUTNEY-My name is Bex Slattery, and I am running for Selectboard in Putney. I am...
Sarah R. Ellis is a writer, disability advocate, and former teen librarian who grew up...
GUILFORD-I met Isaac Evans-Frantz last summer while working at the Governor's Institutes of Vermont in...
What started out as a few random events celebrating LGBTQ Pride month in June has snowballed into a cohesive program of more than a dozen events that have included movies, concerts, a drag show, dances, picnics, an Amtrak whistle stop, displays, a photo exhibit, and more. “It all just fell into place,” said Susan MacNeil, a member of Keene Pride and a founding member of the Pride Planning Committee. “We began by thinking it would be nice to book four...
I enjoyed your recent article on the upgrade of the tire recycling program at WSWMD. However, other recycling programs are also in need of upgrading. The Vermont Bottle Bill is way out of date. Why are so many popular beverages that are packaged in valuable recyclable materials such as aluminum not covered? Why are Vermont hard ciders, for example, not covered? The beverage market its totally different now from how it was in the 1970s when the current law was...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will present a free talk by artist M. Carmen Lane on Thursday, March 31, at 7 p.m. via Zoom and Facebook Live. Register at brattleboromuseum.org. Lane will discuss the BMAC exhibit “(í:se)Be Our Guest/Stolen,” an examination of the intergenerational trauma of Indigenous displacements and Black fugitive migrations, through the lens of the artist's Afro-Indigenous family history. Lane will explore the host/guest relationship, family fracturing and splintering, and the history of displacement of Black...
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