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.
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...
A month after the Bellows Falls Fire Department was forced to lay off four firefighters, the remaining staff are doing the best they can to serve the town, but it's not a perfect scenario, BFFD Chief Shaun McGinnis told The Commons. Last August, the village trustees unanimously voted to eliminate four full-time positions from the department. Village voters in May originally passed a $1,998,070 budget, with $1,941,290 to be raised through property taxes. However, a petition drive successfully forced a...
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...
Town staff have estimated the startup costs for a Brattleboro Fire Department municipal ambulance service to be between $1.3 million and $1.9 million. The Selectboard would like to use one-time ARPA funds to pay for these costs. I want to say at the start that I deeply appreciate our BFD. They are skilled, they are very hard-working, and they risk their lives for us when they fight fires. They have also been skilled EMS first responders when Rescue was last...
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