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.
Forty years after they perished in the Star Hotel fire, firefighters Terry Brown and Dana Fuller are being remembered and honored as an ongoing drive seeks to finish the Brown-Fuller Memorial Park. Currently, two benches donated by the Lions' Club mark the site of the tragedy. “The two benches are a great start to a wonderful memorial; however, they do not tell the full story of that tragic night,” reads a fire department Facebook post. In early 2019, Chuck Wise...
Jana Zeller will present her raucous adult hand puppet show, Puppet Crimes, on Thursday, June 20, at 7:30 p.m. With the allure of a cabaret-style performance, rude language, puppet roughhousing, and delicious food and drink in the sultry atmosphere of The Stone Church in Brattleboro, this dark comedy highlights the glory of traditional, anti-authoritarian, counter-cultural puppet theater. As Zeller describes her show in a news release, Puppet Crimes is “hilarious satire about what it takes for a common puppet to...
I have been a certified nurse midwife for seven years, and I have lived in Vermont for that entire time. As a midwife I have taken care of hundreds of families. I have caught babies in small community hospitals as well as large tertiary care centers. But when it came time to have my own three babies, I chose to give birth outside of a hospital. I knew, from my professional experience, that hospitals - while important and safe places...
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