PUTNEY — Thank you so much to Michelle Bos-Lun for sharing this heart-filled and eye-opening piece, which allowed me to travel with her on this amazing journey.
We need so much more of this - both the perspective she was able to share in the piece, and the experiences that helped to generate that perspective.
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...
Lieutenant General Todd T. Semonite, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), retired on Sept. 10 after 41 years of service. According to a news release, the Bellows Falls native was originally scheduled to retire on May 19; however, President Donald J. Trump extended his tenure until Congress could confirm his successor, Major General Scott Spellmon. This year, Semonite and the Army Corps of Engineers answered FEMA's call to simultaneously build 36 alternate-care facilities across the United States,
At the 2019 Brattleboro Literary Festival, Casey Cep, author of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (2019), intrigued the audience with stories of her discovery that Harper Lee spent time doing research and writing in West Brattleboro. Through the good detective work of many local historians (Robert and Irene Burtiss, John Carnahan, Maisie Crowther, Tom Ragle, Joe Rivers, Sandy Rouse, Jeanne Walsh, and others), Cep was able to piece together that Lee originally came to...
The paintings of Carrie Gelfan of Westminster will be on display at Main Street Arts through June 28 in a show featuring her work from the past 10 years. An opening reception will be held Thursday, May 23, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Gelfan describes her work as figurative, with many portraits and groupings of friends and family members, some from life and some from old photos. “I paint because I like to create and make things,” she said in...
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