Opposition to Vermont Yankee is more like a religion than a war.
Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
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Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
Jacob Alan Roberts works with a laptop propped on his knees in a mostly empty office. Sounds of traffic trundling along Main Street echo through the large windows that give views of People's Bank and shops on Elliot Street. “I have to hit the ground running,” says Roberts, setting the computer on a nearby bookcase. His companions occupying Building a Better Brattleboro's new office, above Burrows Specialized Sports, 105 Main St., include a second chair and standing coat rack. Roberts...
Voters in the four WSESD towns have some terrific choices for school directors this year. (Ballots are available now until Election Day from Town Clerks.) I hope Tim Maciel and Kelly Young will be elected to continue their work serving our children. They have done well pushing for relevant information to guide decisions while sorting through the complexities of the merged district. That complexity makes institutional memory highly valuable, and takes time to accumulate. Our school communities would lose a...
Music magic will be made at Manitou's forest theater on Sunday, Sept 18, with a 4 p.m. concert featuring local musicians, songwriters, and comrades Peter Siegel and Shawn Magee, with “solos, harmonic duos, and tasty backup from special friends bringing songs of love, hope, and cures for humanity,” according to organizers. Siegel is founder of The Gaslight Tinkers and strikes a radical chord with American Roots music. Inspired and mentored by Pete Seeger as a Hudson Valley neighbor early on,
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