After reading Pat Sheehan's letter regarding her uterus and my testicles, here's my response to Pat and all the other pro-aborts out there: Smile! Your moms chose life!
Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
The national television crew arrived at the Harris Hill Ski Jump this Presidents' Day weekend with plans to capture all the pageantry and pyrotechnics of a high-flying centennial celebration for Vermont's lone Olympic-size venue. Instead, it witnessed something more head-spinning. As historians tell it, the landmark sprung 100 years ago when local sports pioneer Fred Harris eyed an evergreen-laden hill and led workers in clearing trees, crushing rock and cobbling together a launchpad for a 1922 inaugural competition that drew...
LINDA HECKER is professor emerita at Landmark College, where she spent 32 years of her 50-year teaching career. GUILFORD-It's been three years since a Voices essay in this paper turned my life upside down and made me an outcast in our community. Follow-up articles in the local press amplified my disgrace by quoting false allegations about me without attempting to verify them. I hoped that those who knew me would rise to my defense, but the few who spoke out...
Breanna Elaine will play the Stage 33 Live listening room at 33 Bridge St., on Sunday, May 29, at 7 p.m. Favorably compared to Jewel, Alanis Morissette, and Stevie Nicks, Elaine has been “making waves with her unique sound and strong songwriting: earthy folk with rock, jazz, and occasional punk underpinnings,” say organizers. Born and raised in Brattleboro, Elaine played violin and bass and sang in a band that performed at soup kitchens for the homeless. She moved to Northampton,
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