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!
Nancy Braus, a retired independent bookseller, is a longtime activist. Since she submitted this piece,
BRATTLEBORO-Since moving to Brattleboro over a year ago, I have learned that there are so...
BRATTLEBORO-The Anti-Defamation League's 2024 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents reports a deeply troubling rise in antisemitism...
DEERFIELD, MASS.-U.S. Rep. Becca Balint claims that President Trump "does not give a damn about...
In the sometimes-acrimonious debate over the future of Windham Southeast Supervisory Union, there are no easy solutions. So when state Education Secretary Rebecca Holcombe visited the union's Act 46 Study Committee on March 17, she faced pointed questions about consolidation, finances, school choice, and school closures. The most-succinct inquiry might have come from Dummerston resident Ruth Barton. “What happens if this thing don't work? You got an answer for that, young lady?” Holcombe declined to offer a specific roadmap for...
This Memorial Day weekend, May 29 and 30, local artists will continue the annual statewide open studio tour tradition. Art in Bellows Falls, a collective of artists will gather at 33 Bridge St. in that village. There, visitors will find Chris Sherwin and Nick Kekic in their glass studios, Scott Morgan's painting, and Judy Lidie's handmade soaps. For just this weekend, Clare Adams will offer painted glass, and Jeanette Staley will show her collage, home decor, and more. Others may...
Elayne Clift rightly laments “the fear of having a catastrophic health crisis, worrying about climate change, deregulation, deportations, the return to banking practices that brought this country to its knees, global instability, the possibility of war, rising hate crimes, the silencing of media, and much more.” But she very wrongly characterizes them as uniquely “Trumpian.” All of these “stressors” have been steadily growing since Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton remade their respective parties to pursue neoliberal austerity at home and...
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