BRATTLEBORO — I'm writing in appreciation of the beautiful flowers we have throughout downtown Brattleboro this summer!
Our quality of life is higher because of these flowers. Many thanks to those who are responsible for them.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...
CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...
The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
The generous spirit of Charlie Slate, who died in 2008, lives on through the annual Christmas Breakfast he founded in 1982. His family is preparing for this year's edition of the Charlie Slate Memorial Christmas Breakfast at American Legion Post 5 on Linden Street. As his granddaughter, Jadi Flynn, tells the story, on Christmas Day 1981, Slate dropped off his wife at work. He then drove around town looking for someplace to eat, and realized there was nowhere to go.
As many of us are still not able to join together, may this story be a comfort. Having been living in this region for only a few months before Passover, I found myself on my own. I had spent a few Seders by myself in previous years, but that was by choice - unlike this time. So, determined not to be alone, I happened upon a very different type of Seder, but one I would not trade for anything. It...
Harmony Collective at 49 Elliot Street will be hosting Hilltop Montessori School students’ artwork for the month of February in downtown Brattleboro. Hilltop’s 50th Anniversary Steering Committee members reached out to the local organization to create this partnership and celebrate the school’s 50th anniversary in a creative, community-connected way. “We are delighted to be hosting this presentation of the children’s art work from Hilltop Montessori,” said Harmony Collective founder Kay Curtis in a news release. “Children’s art is so uniquely...
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