BRATTLEBORO — Whoever painted this graffiti on a rock in the West River estuary, please desist.
Haven't we already done enough to the Abenaki lands?
Painted rocks on the West River.
Voices
Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...
Timothy Belknap describes himself as a "downtown resident and Brattleboro lover." BRATTLEBORO-The yes vote to...
WEST TOWNSHEND-When I learned, as a girl, about the lead-up to Kristallnacht, I had thought...
BRATTLEBORO-The headline made me curious enough to read this one person's opinion of a local...
Members of the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) plan to include two students for one-year terms each on the school board going forward. Brattleboro representative Lana Dever said at the April 12 meeting that the process to develop a proposal to do so was “very collaborative” among all board members and school administrators. “We look forward to working with the [Brattleboro Union High School] administration as we implement this initiative,” Dever said. “This is something that is long coming and...
BRATTLEBORO-I recently challenged Ture Nelson, the Republican candidate for Vermont attorney general, to explain what seemed to me like unquestioning support for all controversial police actions. Having personally experienced, as crime victims, the frustration of the local prosecutor's catch-and-release program, both my wife and I fully get it that we have prosecutors who don't want to prosecute criminals. (In fact, our local state's attorney's office's "victim advocate" seems to think his job is to put us in our place and...
The Baker Street Readers will celebrate New Year's by performing An Evening with Jeeves & Wooster on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 30 and 31, at the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery, 139 Main St. The Readers are most known for reading Sherlock Holmes mysteries but are changing things up with another of England's famed literary duos. Bertie Wooster and his trusty valet Jeeves are the creations of P. G. Wodehouse, who wrote 35 short stories and 11 novels about the pair.
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