BRATTLEBORO-An achievement that has been decades in the making is about to finally happen with...
BRATTLEBORO-In the predawn hours of Nov. 7, a fire tore through the abandoned remains of...
PUTNEY-A fourth appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court has proved unsuccessful in stopping the proposed...
BRATTLEBORO-A group of residents has successfully petitioned for a special Town Meeting to debate whether...
As local leaders here tell it, residents who see people asking for spare change along downtown streets, parking lots, and traffic medians are expressing both sides of the coin. "A highly sympathetic view might hold that panhandling is essential to a poor person's survival and should not be restricted or discouraged in any way," Town Manager John Potter wrote in a recent memorandum to the Selectboard. "A less sympathetic view might see the behavior as contributing to chaos, community disorder...
We are getting complaints from workers at the Brattleboro Food Co-op who are being badgered to remove their names from our petitions, not vise-versa. This is the most compassionate, caring group of union supporters I have ever had the pleasure of working with. I am very proud of their positive, up lifting, transparent, inclusive message.
BRATTLEBORO-Harmony Collective features artist Erin Jenkins during May, and the public is invited to the opening event during this year's first Gallery Walk on Friday, May 3, 5 to 8 p.m. Jenkins's linocut prints and handmade sketchbooks in the exhibit "Meander" revolve around memories of "quiet moments that emerge from taking time for a slow aimless wander, looking with patience and curiosity, and capturing the calmness found there," write organizers in a news release. Jenkins says she finds herself inspired...
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