BROOKLINE — Thank you, Becca Balint, for sharing your grandfather's words. It is beyond sad that such a kind, thoughtful man was murdered in Austria years ago, yet this hateful energy is still alive today.
Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...
Timothy Belknap describes himself as a "downtown resident and Brattleboro lover." BRATTLEBORO-The yes vote to...
WEST TOWNSHEND-When I learned, as a girl, about the lead-up to Kristallnacht, I had thought...
BRATTLEBORO-The headline made me curious enough to read this one person's opinion of a local...
Bellows Falls Union High School has been selected to be part of the VT MakerSchools, a three-year initiative to support selected schools across the state to develop, implement, and sustain makerspace programs. As defined by makerspaces.com, a makerspace is a "collaborative work space inside a school, library or separate public/private facility for making, learning, exploring and sharing that uses high-tech to no-tech tools. These spaces are open to kids, adults, and entrepreneurs and have a variety of maker equipment including...
In late May, the Marlboro College Board of Trustees announced the sale of the campus in Marlboro to Democracy Builders, a charter school incubator. This transaction may be finalized in mid-June unless Attorney General T. J. Donovan intervenes; the sale of the campus is necessary to complete the closure of this small Vermont college. All assets, archives, and its valuable collections will be dispersed despite alumni opposition and donor intent. Faculty emeriti, alumni, neighbors, and supporters of the college immediately...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center recently received a $3,000 grant from the Vermont Community Foundation's Spark! Connecting Community grant program. The grant will help fund art and music instruction for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in 15 Head Start programs around Windham County. “We're deeply grateful to the Vermont Community Foundation for its support of our 'Head Start with Art' program, which serves several hundred of the youngest and, in many ways, neediest members of our community,” said BMAC Director...
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