BRATTLEBORO-George Stone Sr., closing in on his 101st birthday, is one of the last members...
-On a Sunday night, Kelsey Rice found her abuser at her home again, out on...
BRATTLEBORO-The cause of the March 26 fires that temporarily displaced 126 at the School of...
BRATTLEBORO-Caz Clark is the safety and outreach manager at the Brattleboro Food Co-op, a position...
Within the next couple of years, patrons of Brooks Memorial Library might have the option of sipping a coffee while reading their books. A coffee bar along the front east glass wall of the main floor was one of many renovations revealed by retiring Library Director Jerry Carbone to a full house of patrons and trustees on Oct. 29. Patrons use libraries differently from the way they did when the library was built in 1967, Carbone said. Some of the...
Thursday, Oct. 3 7–8:30 p.m. - Vermont Reads - Poetry - Arlene Distler, Wyn Cooper, Tim Mayo, Barbara Benoit, Ed Rayher, and Charlie Butterfield. Brooks Memorial Library 7–9:30 p.m. - Poetry Slam with Kristopher Jansma – Landmark College 7:30–9 p.m. - Collaborations between Video Artists and Writers – Center for Digital Arts Friday, Oct. 4 7–8:15 p.m. - Jami Attenberg and Rosie Schaap - Robert H Gibson River Garden 7–8:15 p.m. - Walter Stahr and Megan Marshall - Centre Congregational...
Last week's wreck in Philadelphia showed the need for massive investment in rail infrastructure in America. Instead, one day later, the House of Representatives voted to cut investment in Amtrak in 2016. The argument goes that operator incompetence - “taking a 50-mile-an-hour curve at 102” - caused the wreck, not an infrastructure problem. This makes my head hurt. The curve is there because the right-of-way was laid out 150 years ago. There should be a state-of-the-art right-of-way for a system...
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