Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...
CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...
The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
Five months into an active sexual abuse investigation involving Brattleboro Union High School (BUHS), the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) Board of Directors wants Superintendent Mark Speno to draft a comprehensive outreach plan. But some felt the Aug. 9 deadline the board wanted to include would be too soon for Speno, who had been apprised of the request just days prior to the July 19 meeting, to provide a solid and thoughtful answer, and in the end, the board took...
My skin crawled when I read the following from writer MacLean Gander on sexual misconduct and the #MeToo movement: “If we were an honest and genuine society and culture, we would cease the criminalization [...] of those human drives that fuel huge industries of drugs, prostitution, pornography. [...] It is fair and good to regulate conduct, but not to make it unlawful when it does no harm” (emphasis mine). These statements are so wrong. Where to start? The only illegal...
The Brattleboro Music Center will present the second concert in the EOS Project's inaugural season on Saturday, June 19. The 5 p.m. performance will feature Kathy Andrew and Heather Sommerlad, violin; Emily Packard, viola; and Zon Eastes, cello. On the program are Javier Álvarez's Metro Chabacano, Joel Thompson's In Response to the Madness, Caroline Shaw's Blueprint, Irene Sazer's Duet for Two Fiddles, and William Grant Still's Lyric String Quartette. The EOS Project - “Educate. Open. Strengthen.” - is a direct...
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