Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
BRATTLEBORO-What a depressing time to celebrate Independence Day, as No. 47 and his obedient and...
Sarah Ellis is a writer and mental health advocate who grew up in Brattleboro and...
BRATTLEBORO-Analysis of Brattleboro's Charter Revision Survey reveals growing dissatisfaction with the current Representative Town Meeting...
Visitors to the Retreat Meadows on Route 30 across from the Retreat Farm have a new opportunity to experience the confluence of the West and Connecticut rivers from a perspective that celebrates and honors the region as the homeland of the Abenaki people. After a brief ceremony on Aug. 13, leaders of the Elnu Abenaki and the Retreat Farm joined Native Americans and others in the community in unveiling an interpretive sign for Wantastegok, the original Abenaki word for the...
On Tuesday, March 12, at 6:30 p.m., Vermont Cartoonist Laureate Tillie Walden will speak at Putney Public Library about "Comics and Queerness in Vermont and Beyond." From Charles Schulz's Peanuts to Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, say organizers, "comics have been a part of American culture since print first began." But comics are no longer relegated just to the newspaper, and "as books like Maus or Persepolis have proven," we are currently experiencing a "golden age for graphic novel storytelling." What...
I had heard a Pope celebrate Easter at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York City; I'd cheered a rousing Easter in a rural Virginia church; I'd celebrated sunrise Easters and many a new-straw-bonneted one. But I'd never been to a cyber Easter Sunday service. Until now. Until this time, this spring of 2020, unprecedented in myriad ways. Expecting the unexpected, the new normal is already old and so, on April 12, I connected to my local Episcopal...
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