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Voices

Is this a senior solution?

By
Howard Fairman
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 — Issue 163

VERNON — Senior Solutions (formerly the Council on Aging for Southeastern Vermont) has long had a local office in the Brattleboro Senior Center.

Senior citizens gather weekdays at the center for activities and meals, where they can meet easily and privately with Senior Solutions staff.

Some arrive via public transportation directly from and back home. Others park their vehicles in the Senior Lot. Some cannot walk easily or far.

Someone has decided to move this Senior Solutions office to the Brattleboro Municipal Center, up and across Main Street, then up a steep hill, effective Aug. 8.

Is this a senior solution?

Voices

Southern Vermont has been here before

By
Adam Grinold

Adam Grinold is executive director of the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation. For more about the...

A fully democratic process

By
Dan DeWalt

Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...

A resistance emboldened by love

By
Meg Mott

Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...

Town Meeting: an extremely rare direct democracy

By
Bahman Mahdavi

NEWFANE-Town Meeting, a state holiday usually held on the first Tuesday in March, is a...

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Group starts push for alimony changes

By
Mike Faher
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 — Issue 344

In 2011, after five years of work, the Massachusetts Legislature approved a major overhaul of the state's alimony law. It did so without a single dissenting vote, “and it's very rare that happens,” said Steve Hitner, the man who led the effort. Now, a group led by Brattleboro businessman Rick Fleming is attempting to use that state's model to revamp the Vermont law that regulates - or, as the group contends, fails to regulate - the ways in which Vermonters...

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Voices

The illusion of benevolence

By
Jim Freedman
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 — Issue 823

Jim Freedman is a leadership consultant and the author of Becoming a Leader: Identity, Influence, and the Power of Reflection. BRATTLEBORO-In Washington, D.C., politicians often put on a show to make themselves look good. A perfect example is when Congress passes, and the president signs into law, tax cuts that mostly help the wealthy but delays cuts to Medicare and Medicaid until after the 2026 elections. This strategy tricks the public into thinking lawmakers care about everyone when they really...

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Arts

Rear Defrosters plan EP release party

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 — Issue 475

On Friday Sept. 7, at 8 p.m., Brattleboro's homegrown classic country band The Rear Defrosters takes the stage at the Stone Church, 210 Main St., to celebrate the release of their new EP, Gentleman Farmer. The event will be a double EP release party with the Boston-based country band formerly known as Girls, Guns and Glory - now going by the name Ward Hayden and the Outliers - releasing their own EP, Can't Judge a Book. Featuring a large and...

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