VERNON — In the end, it is the patients who suffer.
The Brattleboro Retreat is needed in this community. Clearly, something is not going well there, and I hope the facility can be turned around quickly before it is forced to close its doors.
BRATTLEBORO-We are living in a moment of deep crisis for our democracy. Billionaires and political...
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...
A small group of community leaders recently met with State Historic Preservation Officer Laura V. Trieschmann in the offices of the Rockingham Arts and Museum Project to work on getting Vermont LGBTQ heritage sites on the state and national historic registry. The process may start in Bellows Falls. It is no coincidence that this meeting, in the Mary Exner Block, took place a few doors down from the restaurant Popolo, the former site of Andrew's Inn. In the 1970s and...
On Friday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m., in the Centre Congregational Church parlor, a benefit concert for the Brattleboro Women's Chorus will be performed by two local-area vocal quartets, the Seymour Sisters and Singcrony. The Seymour Sisters are Betsy Williams, Laura Williams, Beth Spicer, and Kate Wolff, who sing old-time, gospel, country, and swing, and play banjo, mandolin, guitar, dobro and stand-up bass. Singcrony is an a cappella quartet consisting of Carrie Walker, Beth Kiendl, Ruth Allard, and Andrea Matthews.
In mid-July of 1969, our twice-weekly house maid, Betty, told my mom that she would be going home to North Carolina for a few weeks. She said she would go to her “mama's grave - 'cause when those men land on the moon, that was going to be the end of the world.” “Betty and the moon landing” was a story members of my family told with some cosmopolitan amusement for some time when speaking about our childhood. In 1984,
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