PUTNEY — Retired Brattleboro Police Department Captain Mark Carignan's premier novel Out from Under: George V. Higgins would have admired it.
If you know who he was, that's my review.
If you don't, read both.
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...
U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., is set to introduce her first major piece of legislation of her first term: the Community Housing Act (CHA). She outlined the plan on Feb. 12 at the Bellows Falls Garage, an apartment complex run by Windham & Windsor Housing Trust. According to a news release, the CHA calls for investing more than $500 billion in federal programs that fund the construction of affordable and deeply affordable housing. The housing trust model is a major...
A new documentary film, Underdog, comes to the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro on Wednesday, Feb. 28 to shine a light on one Vermont dairy farmer and his struggle to survive during these challenging times. As described by the filmmakers, in the film, "a quixotic Vermont dairy farmer risks losing the only home he's ever known to chase his dreams of dog mushing in Alaska. In the era of the pandemic, the resonance of Doug [Butler]'s journey extends to all who...
It was December 1969, the week before Christmas. I was a curly-haired redhead, 10 years old, with dreams of gift-giving and no funds to support those dreams. We were a family who had more than many but not a lot. But my father, who worked in the post office downtown, had been working a lot of overtime. Knowing my wish, he gave me a $20 bill and told me that I could use the money to buy Christmas presents. I...
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