BRATTLEBORO — I have come to view Donald Trump simply as “The Abscess.”
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It started with a barefoot naked man, doused with fake blood and walking down the middle of Main Street. It ended with politicians, a faux nuclear waste cask, pro-abortion marchers, and the latest fashion stylings of Alfred Hughes Jr. Welcome to the Fourth of July in downtown Brattleboro, as the first Independence Day parade held since 2019 showed the town in all of its infinite variety. The 49th edition of “By the People: Brattleboro Goes Fourth” offered the traditional patriotic...
During July, 55 students participated in the Summer Arts & Writing Program for teens at The Putney School. Unlike past years, however, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the program to move its 10 arts and writing workshops online, according to Tom Howe, the school's director of summer programs. “Students are working together with their peers, engaging with teachers and with one another, learning, making art, and taking creative risks as they express themselves through their work, ” Howe told The Commons.
Your article mentions a complaint by Laura Campbell about "WWHT's 'startling' characterization of lots on opposite sides of Carol Brown Way as 'contiguous,' when they touch at no point; rather, the lots are separated by a busy thoroughfare owned and maintained by the town of Putney." Ms. Campbell may be ignorant of the standard relationship of property lines to town roads in Vermont: each lot has its boundary at the street's center. Two lots on opposite sides of a street...
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