WEST DUMMERSTON — Seeing the picture of Byron and Lee Stookey reminded of the years of effort this couple has given to the community, and I say “hats off” to both of them.
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People experiencing homelessness live in a range of conditions. Some live in motels, like the more than 93 Brattleboro households participating in the state's General Assistance Emergency Housing Program. Others, largely uncounted, live in tents in the woods, in friends' barns and sheds, in cars, garages, and campers - all situations that do not meet all the human needs for comfort and security. In Putney, approximately 40 people live outside and in campers, according to Fire Chief Tom Goddard, who...
Brattleboro, like much of the United States, is all too often putting the subjective feelings of the individual ahead of the rights and health of the community. I have generally voted Democrat my entire adult life. However, in recent times, a frightening portion of the left has become so extreme that it is at times on parity with the extremist right. I find the extreme right such as Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump to be abhorrent. Their bigotry, lies,
In Stile Moderno presents "Misero Amante: Songs of Love and Suffering" on Friday, Oct. 13 at the Brattleboro Music Center. The program for the 7 p.m. concert invites the audience into the world of 17th-century Italy to indulge in every poet's favorite subject: the joys and pains of love. From the thrill of first attraction to the disappointment of a bad break-up, "every moment of the lover's journey was captured by the most celebrated musicians of the era," say organizers,
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