BELLOWS FALLS — Bellows Falls has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to art and culture, and I'm proud to be a small part of that.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
BRATTLEBORO-What a depressing time to celebrate Independence Day, as No. 47 and his obedient and...
Sarah Ellis is a writer and mental health advocate who grew up in Brattleboro and...
BRATTLEBORO-Analysis of Brattleboro's Charter Revision Survey reveals growing dissatisfaction with the current Representative Town Meeting...
Good day to you, denizens of southeastern Vermont, I hope that you had a peaceful and enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday! Aside from some mixed rain, sleet, and snow late Thursday night in elevations above 1,000 to 1,500 feet in the southern Green Mountains, we can expect fair and seasonable weather to dominate the upcoming week. Thanks to a strong Pacific jet stream, we've been in the doldrums in terms of our weather pattern. This jet stream has caused mainly a west...
PUTNEY-NXT Gallery hosts an opening reception for its upcoming exhibit, "A World Adjacent: Paintings by Jana Zeller." The reception will take place on Friday, May 31, 5:30 to 8 p.m. The exhibit continues through Aug. 11. In her artist statement, Zeller writes about painting props and puppets and designing sets while a teen in a family of internationally touring puppeteers. "During this time I discovered my passion for painting and spent many years creating backdrop-sized oil paintings full of puppet-like...
The more we push the collusion narrative, the less we see what Vladimir Putin's objective is: destabilization. Was there collusion between Donald Trump and Russia? Yes, and yet, it resided near the edge of plausible deniability. But that's hardly the point. The point is that Putin is interested in destabilizing the West by backing potential despots (Marine Le Pen and other nationalists in Europe) and breaking international power blocs (the European Union, NATO). Look at Russia's larger narrative over the...
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