BRATTLEBORO — Mindy Haskins Rogers' piece is impeccable journalism, brilliantly written.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
BRATTLEBORO-What a depressing time to celebrate Independence Day, as No. 47 and his obedient and...
Sarah Ellis is a writer and mental health advocate who grew up in Brattleboro and...
BRATTLEBORO-Analysis of Brattleboro's Charter Revision Survey reveals growing dissatisfaction with the current Representative Town Meeting...
NEWFANE-Rev. Matthew Deen, settled pastor at Newfane Congregational Church, has been ordained by the Windham-Union Association of the Vermont Conference of the United Church of Christ (UCC). Deen has been the licensed pastor here since 2022. His installation took place on Sunday, May 26. On Sunday, June 30, parishioners will celebrate the church's 250th anniversary with an outdoor service and celebration on Newfane Hill - or Fane Hill, as it was called on June 30, 1774, the date the congregation...
BRATTLEBORO-Green Writers Press and ByWay Books & More will launch In the Hushed Thunder by the late Ken Hebson of Guilford and Brattleboro, with a special reading by Hebson's editor, Michael Fleming. The celebration of Hebson's book will take place on Tuesday, April 22, from 4 to 6 p.m. at ByWay Books & More, 399 Canal St. "The event will be an intimate gathering to listen to selected poems by Ken, who was so happy to know his book was...
Elayne Clift compares current culture in the United States with that of Germany during the Nazi takeover, specifically related to a woman's reproductive rights and the right to think independently and to read freely without censorship. I would like add to Clift's thoughts the fact that we Americans - supposedly living in the home of the free and brave - have slipped backwards since Sept. 11, 2001 into the home of the fettered and fearful. Fettered by masks and regulations.
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