Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
As the Vermont Senate takes up debate on the health care reform bill, questions such as “How will we fund it?” and “What about...?” in all its permutations aren't going away. An audience peppered the special assistant to the governor for health reform, a health insurance executive, a health care provider, and a former resident of Sweden with questions Monday night at the Brattleboro Retreat. Richard Davis, a health care reform advocate from Guilford, organized “Health Care Reform in Vermont:
The year was 1918. A virus that some experts think was an avian flu spread so rapidly that in a short time it became the most severe pandemic in recent history. Worldwide, during 1918 and 1919 it infected an estimated 500 million people. That was a third of the world's population. At least 50 million died from the devastating flu globally. Close to 700,000 of those deaths occurred in the United States. Many of them were under the age of...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) invites creators of all ages to design and build original Lego sculptures and display them at the museum this fall in BMAC's seventh annual LEGO Contest & Exhibit, Nov. 21-23. According to BMAC director Danny Lichtenfeld, the event has grown into a great community affair. “We regularly receive entries from contestants ranging in age from toddlers to senior citizens. Most entries are from the tri-state area surrounding Brattleboro but we always have some...
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