BRATTLEBORO — Great coverage of a terrific event! Thank you to the Brattleboro Chamber, and specifically to Kate O'Connor and Greg Lesch, for all of their hard work on the recent governor's debate!
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...
BRATTLEBORO-As three newcomers prepare to take seats on the Selectboard, at least one outgoing incumbent isn't surprised. "Any incumbent was going to lose," said Franz Reichsman of the March 4 town election results. "You raise people's taxes like that, and there's going to be some blowback for sure." Adding, with some humor, "I didn't expect to win, but I didn't expect to be dead last," Reichsman went on to say, "this was an anti-incumbent, anti-Selectboard vote." Coming on board to...
BRATTLEBORO-The local music scene is getting even richer since Glenn Alper of Northampton, Massachusetts, bought the River Garden building last summer. The space at 157 Main St., most recently the River Garden Marketplace, has reopened as Marigold, a café, bar, and live music venue. "I see us being kind of a social hub for Brattleboro, the surrounding communities, and the creative community especially," Alper says. "I'm blown away by how much talent there is locally and want to support that...
The first time I went to in-school suspension I was innocent. I'm not saying I'd never smoked in the girl's room. But that time I didn't. In-school was a revelation, though. I found my student spirit home there. Once I tasted the academic, intellectual, and social freedoms of in-school, I spent the rest of public-high-school hell going back - as much as possible. And I had to see the principal before each trip. So we were buddies. * * *
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