BRATTLEBORO — Mindy Haskins Rogers' piece is impeccable journalism, brilliantly written.
BRATTLEBORO-For the Brattleboro voters, the March 4 ballot is about more than just a symbolic...
PUTNEY-My name is Bex Slattery, and I am running for Selectboard in Putney. I am...
Sarah R. Ellis is a writer, disability advocate, and former teen librarian who grew up...
GUILFORD-I met Isaac Evans-Frantz last summer while working at the Governor's Institutes of Vermont in...
After a March 1 Annual Town Meeting vote approved a $1.2 million expansion plan for the Guilford Free Library by just 15 votes (348–333), a re-vote on May 24 has nixed the plan by 30 votes, 405–375. The revote came after 10 percent of the town's registered voters signed a petition requesting it. The article was exactly as first presented, asking for a $205,000 bond to help pay for the project and that the town reallocate $195,000 in money originally...
At the Dec. 15 Selectboard meeting, when the board discussed an ordinance to restrict how much rent can be required of new tenants, I found the thoughtful and constructive tone set by its chair, Tim Wessel, and the rest of the board very refreshing, especially as I have been so focused on the profoundly dysfunctional national political scene for so long. Some of the comments from the public, however, proved that our little town is not immune to the politics...
In partnership with Green Mountain Spinnery, the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) presents a felted gnome workshop with Kathleen Meeks on Saturday, Oct. 8, at 2 p.m. Meeks will lead adults and children ages 10 and up in making needle-felted gnomes. All materials will be provided, including needles and enough hand-dyed wool to make two gnomes. Meeks has been needle felting since 2004. She and her daughter raise Shetland sheep on the farm where Meeks' mother was born, and...
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