Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
Kate O'Connor remembers hanging holiday lights on Main Street with other volunteers when a passerby cemented for her the importance of contributing to the town she loves. Instead of asking what he could do to help, or offering to donate a wreath, the man complained about some aspect of gussying the place up, O'Connor recalls. “The town is the people who live in it,” she said thinking back to that day. “I can't sit here and complain about something and...
RE: “Visions, values, and tragedy” [Special Focus, July 17]: Although seeking to understand rather than demonize criminals is one mark of a compassionate and thoughtful newspaper, your feature section about the murder of Michael Martin has done a grievous disservice to the Brattleboro Food Co-op, the people who lead it and, by extension, the community that owns this important institution. Given that Martin is not here to defend the manner in which he discharged his responsibilities as the co-op's store...
Joe Milliken still remembers the first time he heard the synthesizer-infused rock 'n' roll that stormed onto the airwaves in 1978 with the self-titled debut album of The Cars. From the fire of Elliot Easton's lead guitar to the ice of Greg Hawks' synthesizer, “Just What I Needed,” the first single off The Cars, didn't sound like anything else on the radio in the early summer of 1978. But the other element that made “Just What I Needed” a top-30...
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