BRATTLEBORO — I am so proud of what Ann Braden has done, and I have been honored to work with her on GunSense Vt. projects. I believe she will be an amazing senator when her time comes.
(Also, her successor is Clai Lasher-Sommers, not Lashman.)
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...
The Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) will hold its Annual Meeting on Tuesday, March 17, at 7 p.m., in the gymnasium at Brattleboro Union High School, 131 Fairground Rd. Child care will be provided. Warned items for the meeting include election of district officers and a vote to approve the $51,171,300 district school budget for 2020-21. You can vote only if you are present on the floor of the Annual Meeting. To take advantage of child care, email WSESD Board...
Most of us have had the experience during an evening walk of catching glimpses of people's lives through lit windows. This is the psychological enticement of Mary Welsh's collages, on exhibit at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. But the world of the Williamsville artist, of cut paper adhered to board, is one you haven't encountered. Sometimes we find ourselves inside a house with furniture, objects placed about the rooms, a set piece from which we look out through windows. Sometimes...
My skin crawled when I read the following from writer MacLean Gander on sexual misconduct and the #MeToo movement: “If we were an honest and genuine society and culture, we would cease the criminalization [...] of those human drives that fuel huge industries of drugs, prostitution, pornography. [...] It is fair and good to regulate conduct, but not to make it unlawful when it does no harm” (emphasis mine). These statements are so wrong. Where to start? The only illegal...
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