A contribution to the Sept. 4 Letters from Readers column called out U.S. Rep. Peter Welch for not voicing support for impeaching President Donald Trump.
Welch, in fact, called for Trump's impeachment on July 18.
A trained recovery coach at Turning Point of Windham County and an emergency coach at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, Vanessa Santana is a person in long-term recovery who works with folks whose lives are affected by addiction. During this pandemic, she also created a new outdoor program - Adventures in Recovery - for Turning Point. We talked about her personal journey, and also her collaborative work with local police and other community members who are bringing help and hope to those...
The artwork of Mindy Fisher is on display at Main Street Arts through Feb. 5 in a show she has titled “Ornaglyphology.” An artist reception will be held Thursday, Jan. 16, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Fisher describes her paintings as ornaglyphs, each a spontaneous experiment, with color and shapes colliding. Her surreal, gouache paintings feature a crazy cast of bird-like characters and a hieroglyphic language that is open to interpretation. “The paintings started off as comic panels,” she explained...
SAXTONS RIVER-Dan DeWalt, there's something wrong with your analysis. I would suggest you read more history, specifically 1930s German. Maybe Isaac Babel. How about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion? The Turner Diaries? When an organization such as Hamas says its goal is to kill Jews, builds a war machine to do it, then does it - pillages and rapes like the Cossacks - how is that not a genocidal act? Where is your sympathy for those victims? How...
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