BRATTLEBORO — I have come to view Donald Trump simply as “The Abscess.”
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...
Come September, Brattleboro Union High School administrators Hannah Parker and Cassie Damkoehler will switch roles after an advertised search for a new principal failed - and caused some upset. Following the second of four May 9 executive sessions, the Windham Southeast School District Board voted to appoint current Assistant Principal Parker as interim principal and current Interim Principal Damkoehler as assistant principal. Current Interim Assistant Principal Traci Lane, who is filling in for Chris Day while he is on a...
I was disappointed to see Randolph T. Holhut's article, “Sanders pushes progressive priorities during speech in Brattleboro” [News, Sept. 8] make no mention of the violent arrest which took place at the Labor Day event. And I was distressed to find it mentioned only in William Johnson's poorly reported letter [Voices, Sept. 8], which misrepresents several key facts. I was one of several concerned citizens who filmed the incident as it unfolded, and I have made my recording available at...
The New England Center for Circus Arts reopened over the summer with extensive COVID-19 safety precautions, and the center says the upcoming fall session “brings the fitness, joy, and creativity that students are familiar with in a safe way.” In-person class structures have been rearranged to reinforce social distancing and mask wearing, and students who are unable to come in person to NECCA can still include circus fitness in their lives through new virtual programming. Virtual options focus on at-home...
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