Congratulations, Robbs!
You are some of the hardest working people I know, and you deserve every maple product sale you get from this opportunity and others!
Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
When municipal leaders abruptly ended a nearly 60-year relationship with Rescue Inc. in 2022 and proposed a town takeover of emergency medical services which they claimed would reap up to $700,000 in annual insurance profit, residents weren't the only ones surprised. So were officials of the 13 Vermont communities that operate their own emergency medical services. “That whole decision by Brattleboro sent shock waves through Vermont EMS,” said Bill Mapes, chief of the Morristown EMS Department. “Insurance doesn't cover EMS...
A great shout-out of thanks to Steve Barrett at the Brattleboro Department of Public Works, Cersosimo Lumber, and New England Central Railroad for removing the dreaded railroad siding on Route 142 which has caused the downfall (literally) of many, many cyclists over the years. The tracks are gone and have been replaced with smooth asphalt. Thank you all for making Brattleboro a safer place to cycle!
The Festival of Fiddlers on the Green 2020 is now underway. Sponsored by the Northeast Fiddlers Association, the Champlain Valley Fiddlers, and Young Traditions Vermont, it is an endeavor to photo-document a fiddler playing in every Vermont town in the year 2020. This was attempted in 2019, but ended up just 19 towns shy of meeting the goal. At dusk on Dec. 31, a young man named Caleb P was photographed playing “Goat on the Green” to make Roxbury the...
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