BRATTLEBORO — It was gratifying to learn that federal, state, and town authorities succeeded in apprehending drug dealers at 33 Oak St. and 48-50 Central St. as well as the Black Mountain Inn on Putney Road.
Drug activity poses all sorts of problems for our community. Thank you to the officials who worked to achieve these results.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...
CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...
The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
BRATTLEBORO-Selectboard members have decided to raise parking rates to achieve full recovery for the town parking fund and cover capital needs. The board voted on June 18 to raise the rates and add a charge for Sunday parking. Board members Peter Case, Daniel Quipp, Elizabeth McLoughlin, and Richard Davis voted to adopt the plan; Franz Reichsman abstained. Expenses for fiscal year 2025 are anticipated to be $1,015,866, and a budget had to be determined by July 1. Ultimately, the board...
One of the most liberating moments of my young life took place in 1968, when, at age 14, the school dress code finally loosened to the point where it ceased to exist. I had always hated the compulsory skirts and knee socks that allowed the cold wind to freeze us girls as we walked to and from school. I definitely felt more comfortable in every way in my ratty, ripped jeans that I wore to school the minute I was...
Canal Street Art Gallery, 23 Canal Street, presents The Vermont Salon, a new open-call exhibition hung in the floor-to-ceiling Salon style. The gallery brings this classical way of showing art into a contemporary time. The art show will be inclusive of all art, and the opportunity to exhibit is open to the public. The Vermont Salon celebrates the abundance and diversity of art created by artists everyday. It embraces some of the aesthetics and structures of the original salons, held...
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