BRATTLEBORO — Prayers for strength and peace. We, no matter what our religions or backgrounds, have been entrusted to care for the Earth and everything on it.
These companies see things and people only for their possibility of exploitation. Their leaders need to know that someone will always hold them accountable!
I sure don't want to stand in their shoes come judgement day!!
Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
Within a mere few pages of his debut novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun, Chuck Collins of Guilford sets the stage for his heroine, Rae Kelliher, to carry out a well-planned murder/suicide. Kelliher sacrifices herself to a cause, taking out an oil baron for his role in delaying responses to climate change. Complicating the aftermath, two of the CEO's children are killed in the process. In Altar, a work of near-future eco fiction, Collins welcomes us into a world where...
Louis Josephson, president and chief executive officer of the Brattleboro Retreat, has stated that “there is no mental health system” in Vermont. In his response, Frank Reed, the state's commissioner of mental health, claimed that there is. Of course, both are right. On paper, there is a system - hospital and residential care, community mental health, randomly scattered private practitioners and, of course, prison - but try in practice to consistently access this system. Examples of troubles include unreasonable waits...
Archer Mayor shares the inside story on Fall Guy, the latest novel featuring Brattleboro's famous fictional detective Joe Gunther on Saturday, October 29, at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street. All are invited for coffee (with maple syrup, of course) and a chance to chat with acclaimed author Mayor from 11 a.m. to noon in the main reading room. Copies of Fall Guy will be available for sale and signing from Everyone's Books. In book 33 of the beloved series,
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