WARDSBORO — Howard Fairman, you sound like a bitter skier talking about snowboarders when the mountains started letting “those kind” on the slopes.
Don't you believe in diversity on the trails?
“Oasis” means different things to different people.
Lisa Chase is retired and lives in Putney, where she is a member of the...
BRATTLEBORO-I want to express my support for those of my neighbors, the children at my...
BRATTLEBORO-It's good to see the American flag flying at half-staff again after the exoneration of...
BRATTLEBORO-The incoming president has now signed pardons for the violent treasonous folks who stormed the...
When the Brattleboro Union High School Bears football team took the field in the season opener against Middlebury on Sept. 1 at Natowich Field, and voices singing the national anthem rose to the line "and the rockets' red glare," in the sky appeared a small Cessna 182. Perfectly poised, the plane, piloted by 17-year-old BUHS senior Ben Berg, saluted the team and celebrated the first varsity sports event at the school with its new mascot, the Bears. "It was awesome,"
It was once the most affluent country in Latin America. The average person owned a car, and even those living in the poor outskirts of its major cities had a refrigerator, a gas stove, and a television set - things then considered luxuries - even when they did not always have access to running water. I lived in Venezuela with my parents and sisters from 1954 to 1964. Exiled from my native Bolivia after a revolution, arriving in the capital...
Resistance by individuals and groups has a long and varied history. Aristophanes wrote the play Lysistrata, in which women used sex as a weapon against war. The French and British resisted tyranny. So did Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Henry David Thoreau, Rosa Parks, and Woody Guthrie. On Friday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m., Next Stage Arts presents a program on Resistance as part of its literary series, Next Stage Speaks. Suggested donation is $10. Featured speakers are scholar Rai...
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