Sometimes it feels like Brattleboro is under siege, but it's a siege that is hard to define. Is it drug addiction? Is it homelessness? Is it panhandling? Is it theft? Is it a mental health issue? Is it all of the above? Just one or two of the above? No one can say exactly what is happening, but it's a conundrum that exists all over the United States. "Homelessness and other signs of disorder, like public drug use and disturbing...
Fresh from a nation-wide tour to celebrate folk legend Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion will kick off an all-acoustic “Summer Sunday Social” series at the Rockingham Meeting House on Sunday, July 22. The series at the 200-year-old landmark Meeting House will be presented by Vermont Festivals LLC in association with Flying Under Radar and Kicking & Screaming. Guthrie, granddaughter of the late Woody Guthrie, and her husband, Johnny Irion, have toured nationally with the extended...
I read with great interest Deborah Luskin's commentary about the woeful lack of high-speed internet and reliable cell service in our state. We want to lure out of state workers with a cash incentive, only to offer them an electronic version of the old Vermont saying “You can't get there from here.” I suppose they could gaze out the window and admire the natural beauty of our state while waiting for slow connections to work. That might be pleasant to...
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