ROCKINGHAM-A pair of Stephen Belaski murals, in storage in northern New York for the past...
BRATTLEBORO-The Selectboard has learned that it will cost about $2.1 million - a 9% increase...
With the election now in the books, change is in the air. But how this...
BRATTLEBORO-"I always thought that the Sportsman's Lounge on Canal Street in Brattleboro was our own...
Brattleboro shed its winter coat on Friday as it enjoyed an afternoon where the temperatures approached 60 degrees. It was a happy break from a long and snowy winter. Perhaps the biggest sigh of relief came from the Brattleboro Area Drop In Center's staff. They know that cold, hunger, and homelessness are a life-threatening combination. “People come in hungry. Hungry and cold,” Drop In Center executive director Melinda Bussino told Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin. Shumlin toured the Drop In Center...
If Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and, indeed, the rest of this Congress had put more effort into single-payer health care as they did in the Affordable Care Act, our growing segment of the increasingly older population and the future of health and medical science and services for us all would have been better served. In its stead, we watched helplessly as they plowed $12.5 billion into “Obamacare,” which is nothing less than a Cheshire-cat-grinning, wide-mouthed gift of massive proportions to...
In what is beginning to look like an annual event, the Northeast Fiddlers Association will host a fiddle meet at the Bellows Falls Moose Club from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20. Fiddlers and non-fiddlers alike are invited to a very sociable afternoon. An NEFA meet always begins at noon with a tune circle. As fiddlers arrive, they sign up on a numbered list and then, if they wish, join the circle. In the circle, people take turns choosing...
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