DUMMERSTON — Wonderfully detailed and complete article on the status of recycling and trash disposal but no information on how options affect the environment and climate change.
I would love to read more in a future story.
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...
Attending Annual Representative Town Meeting has often been an exercise in endurance as meetings, at least in the past 10 years, have stretched well beyond the eight-hour mark. Frustration expressed by some members around the lack of deep conversations at this year's meeting, however, highlighted ARTM's limitation in this regard. By the end of the night, the number of meeting members began to dwindle, prompting remaining members to consider - and ultimately vote down - a non-binding proposal to move...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will present two events with New York-based artist Mie Yim in connection with the exhibit “Fluid Boundaries”: a walkthrough of the exhibit on Aug. 4 and a chalk art activity during Gallery Walk on Aug. 5. Yim describes the paintings in “Fluid Boundaries” as a blend of the adorable and the unsettling, the real and the dreamlike, the figurative and the abstract. Describing the figure in “Tequila Hangover,” one of the paintings featured...
Almost 150 folks, most of them members of the Brattleboro Food Co-op, sat together to celebrate the 45th annual meeting of the Co-op. As we ate delicious food prepared by Co-op staff, we listened to reports from the board and the general manager. Soon after, the moderator opened up the floor for comments. We heard first from a long-time Co-op member, a woman of color, who stood up and told of an extremely painful racially-based experience she had at the...
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