BRATTLEBORO-The Annual Town Election takes place for all town voters on Town Meeting Day, Tuesday,
BRATTLEBORO-The public is invited to a special informational meeting hosted by the Windham Southeast School...
BRATTLEBORO-Ashlyn and Abraham McClurg of Rebop Farm on Sunset Lake Road are reeling but resilient,
BRATTLEBORO-Upon the advent of the airplane at the turn of the 20th century, locals with...
The battle over long-term storage of Vermont Yankee's spent nuclear fuel has spilled into criminal court. Clay Turnbull, a trustee and staffer of the Brattleboro-based New England Coalition, was cited March 3 by the Windham County Sheriff's Department for unlawful trespass at the plant property in Vernon. Turnbull is scheduled to appear in Windham Superior Court Criminal Division next month to answer the allegation. But in an interview the day after the incident, the 53-year-old Townshend resident said he was...
In the 1960s the Republican party formed a “Southern strategy” that sought to attract southern, white conservatives by appealing to their racial resentment around the civil rights gains made in the 1950s and 1960s. The presidential campaigns of Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon were among the most notable. In 1980, Ronald Reagan, the revered icon of the Republican party, launched his presidential campaign just a few miles from Philadelphia, Miss., the site where the infamous 1964 civil rights murders took...
As the leaves take on a golden and crimson hue, and the nights cool, the trails of Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center become alive with their Forest of Mystery on Oct. 23 and 24. Bonnyvale invites all to become part of their forest of mysteries as a circus troupe lost in time appears to mortals. A hundred years ago “The Ringmaster's Amazing Circus” travelled the world, delighting adult and child alike. Then the mischievous clown Mr. Giggles tricked his fellow performers...
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