What a lovely piece! It's so hard to make such a huge sacrifice, even when we know it's the best and right thing to do.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
BRATTLEBORO-On behalf of the Windham County Heat Fund and your friends and neighbors who benefit...
BRATTLEBORO-Open your door to Rescue Inc. for a pre-operation safety check of your living space.
Natalie Silver, a political consultant, submitted this open letter on behalf of more than 200...
For the past few years, Town Manager Peter B. Elwell has worked to steer the Selectboard away from putting out proverbial fiscal fires and toward preventing emergencies in the first place. Small municipalities too often replace important town vehicles and infrastructure only after they've failed or have come close to it, or fixing buildings only after they've begun to crumble. This budget season, Elwell and his staff continue that effort with their short-term goals - recommendations for the fiscal year...
As Dec. 18 turns into the 19th - at the stroke of midnight - the creators of Sonic Blanket invite us all to tune into WVEW, 107.7 FM, as three local artists launch a yearlong multimedia collaboration designed, according to a recent media release, to address pandemic-spawned “themes of isolation, community, history, and place.” Conceived by Brattleboro artist Jonathan Gitelson and including poet/writer Diana Whitney and composer, performer, and sound artist Weston Olencki, Sonic Blanket sprang from pandemic living. The...
I learned lessons as a very young girl that have colored my life as a woman - for better or worse. The neighborhood I grew up in was teeming with kids. That was what everyone had the most of: kids. On most days - especially in summer - the six-block radius of my neighborhood was loud and busy and rowdy with kids of all ages playing, fighting, yelling, roller skating. But not on Sundays. On Sundays, all of the kids...
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