Great article about Lester Dunklee, my dad!
It's all true. Yes, the Whetstone flood was severe - thanks to all who helped my dad and other businesses and people who were impacted.
Retirement...what's that? Is that like refurbishing your tires?
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...
Not all children are lucky enough to have a drag queen read to them, but some recently had the opportunity at the Rockingham Free Public Library. As part of the Storytime for Social Justice program at the library, Sam Maskell, the Youth Services Librarian, invited Miss Ginger Soulless, a performer with the Ladies of the Rainbow drag troupe, to be a guest reader. “Storytime for Social Justice is a fairly new program for the [library's] youth department, which takes place...
A new body of paintings by visionary artist Gil Perry is on exhibit at Gallery in the Woods throughout the month of September with an opening reception on Friday, Sept. 1, from 5 to 8 p.m., during Gallery Walk. Perry is an artist-painter currently living and working in Springfield, Vermont. Exhibit organizers say his drawings and paintings have "a remarkably delicate and detailed touch that allows one image to unfold in surprising ways over time." "Through my drawings and paintings,
In April of 1970, when I was a senior in high school in Pennsylvania, my girlfriend (and now wife of 38 years) and I skipped school and took the local train into Philadelphia to attend the first Earth Day Rally. It was exhilarating to see thousands of young people like us demanding change in how we treated our planet. Back then, littering was commonplace, dumping raw sewage into rivers and streams was the norm, and emissions on factories and cars...
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