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...
In 1892, the Vermont Legislature, heeding a call from Dr. Henry Holton and other concerned residents in town, incorporated the pioneering Brattleboro Home for the Aged and Disabled. “Physical comfort and care are combined with a social freedom and variety that are unusual,” historian Mary Cabot went on to write in Annals of Brattleboro. “The number of elderly people who look forward to the age at which they can be eligible to this Home is a witness to its happy...
When evaluating any legislative action, I always step back and ask, “What is the core purpose of this bill?” In examining the minimum wage increase bill, the purpose - from my perspective - is to ensure that Vermonters working a full-time job are not forced to toil in poverty but rather can experience the dignity of work that earns a livable wage. I have always had a commitment to helping my working neighbors move ahead, and I thought that this...
Boston-based Seven Times Salt joins Brattleboro Music Center regulars In Stile Moderno for what organizers are calling “a delightful new concert program,” Sunday, March 27, at 4 p.m. “Fair Phoenix: Tales of the Winter Queen” focuses on the story of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. The program will follow her life story with music from England on the occasion of her wedding in 1613, music “borne of religious anguish during the Thirty Years' War, and finally music of mourning and...
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