Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
The National Weather Service in Albany, N.Y., is warning of very cold temperatures for Windham County for much of this week. Daytime highs are expected to be in the teens Wednesday, and Thursday in Brattleboro. Nighttime lows will range from about 10 below on Wednesday night to about 10 above on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Wind chill values expected to be 25 below zero on Wednesday night into Thursday, according to the Weather Service, which posted a Wind Chill Advisory...
This all started with a question I posted on social media, a question that came from my thinking for years about the state of Brattleboro. I asked everyone: Is our town going down the tubes due to what seemed to be a degradation of our overall environment (drugs, crime, closing businesses, etc.)? I also challenged myself to think outside of the box about how we resolve what ails us as a community while also questioning my own harmful perceptions of...
The Vermont Historical Society is sharing what it calls groundbreaking research into the history of slavery in Vermont through a series of public programs and teacher workshops around the state. Harvey Amani Whitfield, author of The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont, 1777-1810, presents his research on Tuesday, May 6, at 7 p.m. at the the Brattleboro Historical Society's History Center in the Brattleboro Masonic Center. Whitfield, an associate professor of history at the University of Vermont, will touch on...
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