HALIFAX — I don't like the tactics of 17-year-old Rio Daims, who kept heifers waiting on hot pavement during last weekend's parade “die-in.”
But what is her father, who isn't quoted and whose decade-old activism is unrelated, doing in your story?
Sometime last century, newspapers started covering women in the news without mentioning their husbands.
Will today's child activists get that much respect?
Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...
Timothy Belknap describes himself as a "downtown resident and Brattleboro lover." BRATTLEBORO-The yes vote to...
WEST TOWNSHEND-When I learned, as a girl, about the lead-up to Kristallnacht, I had thought...
BRATTLEBORO-The headline made me curious enough to read this one person's opinion of a local...
BELLOWS FALLS-Meetings over the past several weeks to discuss the idea of merging the Bellows Falls Fire Department (BFFD), the Rockingham Volunteer Fire Department (RVFD), and the Saxtons River Volunteer Fire Department (SRVFD) have been both informative, and at times, confrontational. Merging the three independent fire departments into a more cohesive single unit has been discussed and debated in Rockingham for decades, with no less controversy. Voters will decide this latest proposal at the next Annual Town Meeting, which in...
Chuck Collins is co-editor of Inequality.org and author of the recent, Vermont-based novel Altar to an Erupting Sun. See the letter at fairsharevt.org/wealthy-letter. GUILFORD-As the Vermont Legislature debates how to pay for housing solutions - and Gov. Phil Scott laments that "there just isn't any money" - a group of 35 high-income Vermonters have suggested a path forward: raise their taxes. In a public letter to Vermont state legislators, they write: "As Vermonters who have economically prospered in our state,
BRATTLEBORO-An exhibition of paintings by Mary Wright and Ellen Maddrey, "Sensing Landscape," is now on display at 118 Elliot, with an opening party planned for Saturday, Oct. 5, from 5 to 7 p.m. The opening party will include live music and dosas made fresh on site by Dosa Kitchen Factory and Food Truck. The artists will be available to discuss their work. Attendees are invited to bring an instrument and join the music. Wright and Maddrey share a studio in...
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