Finally, voices of reason! I have watched this situation unfold, and I am flabbergasted how quickly it got out of control.
I waited and waited for reasonable voices to make their thoughts known. Thank you for speaking up!
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
Rain and winds pelt disused security towers. A long strip of yellow caution tape twists on the ground below, dragging through shallow puddles. From across the mostly empty parking lot, a horn blares. A yellow rail car pushes a heavy flatbed, breaking through the sense of desolation as it trundles down the rail spur that the newest owner of the former Vermont Yankee nuclear power station, NorthStar, installed to haul radioactive waste to a repository in Texas. A worker opens...
The 19th Annual Collegiate A Cappella Benefit Concert will take place on Saturday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m., at Brattleboro's historic Latchis Theatre. Among the six groups slated to perform are the Vassar Devils, featuring Brattleboro native Ben Brady. Brady, a 2020 graduate of Brattleboro Union High School, is studying astronomy and physics at Vassar. He sings baritone with the Vassar Devils and serves as the group's assistant music director. As a high school student, Brady was a frequent performer...
As I write this, I don't know the results of today's vote on the proposed school merger. I'm writing to offer the comment that, however the vote goes, the process has been successful in its own right. Those supporting the merger and those opposing it each clearly and articulately put forward their positions and the rationales for those positions. We can be confident that the voters have heard the arguments for and against, and that they will have made an...
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