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.
Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
The Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) will hold a public hearing about the proposed fiscal year 2024 school operating/capital budgets on Tuesday, March 21 in the Brattleboro Union High School gymnasium. Business Manager Frank Rucker says he believes the board “supports this budget as a fiscally responsible plan to respond to our school's student and community needs.” The proposed $62,704,054 general operating budget for FY 2024 represents a $1,620,583 or 2.7 percent increase to this year's operating budget. However, the...
As a lifelong environmentalist who applauds the intent of the Affordable Heat Act (S.5), it pains me to point out a very big problem with the bill that is now cruising toward legislative approval: wood heat is far dirtier than coal, oil, and gas. And if you make fuel oil and propane more expensive, we Vermonters will burn more firewood. Since 38% of Vermont homes are heated in part or full with wood, S.5 may well accomplish the exact opposite...
The Brattleboro Camerata presents "Treasure Hidden Within," a program exploring how composers hide pre-existing music within the structure of a new piece, infusing the latter with the essence of the older work. The concert is scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 10, at 4 p.m. at the Brattleboro Music Center. The "hidden treasures" in the Dec. 10 concert include a popular secular Medieval tune embedded in Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's "Missa L'homme armé a 4," sacred Gregorian chant melodies hidden in Maurice...
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