BRATTLEBORO — Thank you, Sherri Keefe, for your efforts to protect others from predation and abuse.
It takes such courage to stand alone in the face of all you're enduring when you tell your story.
Much love and support to you.
Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
The state primary election will take place on Tuesday, Aug. 13, at polls throughout Windham County. The following information is provided by the elections division of the office of Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Harris. For more information, including personalized voter resources, visit sos.vermont.gov/elections. Polls at locations statewide, including the following locations, close at 7 p.m. [Editor’s note: The contact information for Vernon, supplied inaccurately in the state listing, has been corrected, with our apologies and appreciation to Town Clerk...
Sixty percent of all gun deaths in the United States are suicides. In Vermont, 100 people a year - mostly males and mostly impulsively - kill themselves, two per week, week after week. They typically use the most lethal weapon, a handgun, which provides them with barely a chance of survival. Governor Phil Scott recently signed into law some meaningful additions to gun legislation, enhanced background checks, banning bump stocks and large-capacity magazines, and raising the purchase age for lethal...
World War I volunteer nurse Marion McCune Rice's photographs and letters will be on exhibit at the 118 Elliot gallery. Several members of Rice's family will be present at an opening reception during Gallery Walk Friday, July 2, from 5 to 8 pm, at 118 Elliot, 118 Elliot St. Fixed gallery hours are Fridays, 3 to 6 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays, noon to 3 p.m. The exhibit, which runs through Sept. 1, is co-sponsored by the Brattleboro Words Trail...
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