RE: “Coming home” [Arts, June 13].
Grants Ferry is a very good read. I especially liked David Chase's sneaky sense of humor.
ATHENS-Jeff Potter's column argues that because some United Nations officials and nongovernmental organizations argue Israel's...
BRATTLEBORO-Australian (secret) ballot is the only way all the registered voters of Brattleboro get to...
Tristan Roberts (tristan@tristanroberts.org) is a former state representative, a small-scale farmer, and a writer who...
Daniel Quipp served on the Brattleboro Selectboard from 2019 to 2025. BRATTLEBORO-In the last month...
BRATTLEBORO-When Richard Berkfield graduated from the School for International Training in 2008, he could not have imagined he would go on to build a $5 million regional food distribution network that would fundamentally reshape how communities think about local agriculture. Now, after nearly two decades of pioneering local and regional food distribution, Berkfield, founding director of Food Connects in Brattleboro, is stepping down. Since March 24, Deputy Director Lee Halpern has served as interim executive director, with Berkfield helping with...
Your subhead “Development Review Board approves preliminary plans for new Amtrak station, which will give Brattleboro the first level-boarding platform in Vermont” is incorrect. It should read “the second level-boarding platform.” You board Amtrak in Rutland at train level (and have for many years). The modern station has an ADA-compliant electric chair lift inside the terminal, the platform is under cover, and it even has a second backup, manual wheelchair lift. All thanks to Sen. Bernie Sanders. My wife, a...
Rock River Players (RRP) launches its 2022–23 season with Oscar Wilde's satire, The Importance of Being Earnest, Nov. 4 to 13 at the Williamsville Hall on Dover Road. Directed by RRP founder/co-artistic director Annie Landenberger, Wilde's greatest hit is the second large-cast comedy classic offered by the RRP since the pandemic, following last year's sell out, The Front Page. “Though Wilde labelled it 'a trivial comedy for serious people,' Earnest is a pretty irreverent satire, a poke in the fleshy...
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