Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...
Timothy Belknap describes himself as a "downtown resident and Brattleboro lover." BRATTLEBORO-The yes vote to...
WEST TOWNSHEND-When I learned, as a girl, about the lead-up to Kristallnacht, I had thought...
BRATTLEBORO-The headline made me curious enough to read this one person's opinion of a local...
A three-judge panel of the Vermont Supreme Court has rejected the latest appeal by opponents of a proposed affordable housing community on Alice Holway Drive in Putney, but despite a new construction start date of spring 2024, appellant Laura Campbell says she will take steps to request a re-argument of the appeal in front of the full court. The July 21 ruling by the state's highest court affirms the Environmental Court's decision earlier this year to reject an appeal to...
Hiding is, in most cases, a practice of protection, for ill or good. A rule breaker or misbehaver can hide to avoid detection, capture, punishment. A shy person can hide to protect herself from unwanted scrutiny. A tired person can hide for rest and restoration. A zebra can disappear in the grasses, a tiger in the underbrush. One fleeing, one stalking, both surviving. Camouflage is often used for hiding our deadly penchant for violence, whether as sport hunters or to...
Five years after what many assumed to be the last performance of their 40-year touring career, Nowell Sing We Clear will take the Latchis Theatre stage again on Monday, Dec. 16, at 7 p.m., to celebrate the publishing of their new book, Nowell Sing We Clear Songs & Carols for Midwinter & Christmastide. The four members of the band (Tony Barrand, Fred Breunig, Andy Davis, and John Roberts) will be joined by two bands from the next generation - Windborne...
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