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Voices

Knock it off, litterbugs!

By
Susan Avery
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 — Issue 169

BRATTLEBORO — This pile of disgusting waste found recently by the side of Crosby Street prompts me to put my thoughts in writing.

To all those fast-food-munching, beverage-guzzling, tobacco-smoking litterbugs: knock it off and take your trash home.

This is Vermont - be proud of your state.

Voices

What has the U.S. done?

By
Kate Kenner

GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...

Keeping faith in ‘interesting times’

By
The Beloved Community VT

The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...

Election results: obvious, but still shocking

By
M.N. Scherbatskoy

WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...

We’ve become a business with a community problem

By
Hannah Sorila

Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...

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News

Legislature’s budget analyst predicts increase in statewide school tax

By
Anne Galloway
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 — Issue 125

The statewide education property tax could go up by 2 cents next year, according to preliminary estimates from the Joint Fiscal Office. The projected increase would push the residential rate to 89 cents, and the nonresidential rate to $1.38 for every $100 in property value. The cost-driver for the increase is school spending. The Department of Education estimates that education expenditures could rise 1.7 percent this year. The figures from the Joint Fiscal Office are preliminary and subject to change.

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Voices

Investigation must be thorough and right

By
Lana Dever, Tim Maciel, and Deborah Stanford
Wednesday, September 28, 2022 — Issue 683

Given the shameful history of sexual abuse, coverups and retaliation in our society, it is perhaps understandable that there was a certain amount of distrust in how the Windham Southeast School district board would handle the allegations revealed in Mindy Haskins Rogers' report of sexual abuse, including statutory rape, at Brattleboro Union High School [“No more secrecy,” Viewpoint, Aug. 11, 2021]. Ms. Haskins Rogers noted that “The evidence seems damning, yet [Robert “Zeke” Hecker] was protected by supervisors, colleagues, and...

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Arts

Sins of the father?

By
Richard Henke
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 — Issue 254

Award-winning author Rebecca Coffey of Putney has written a researched, but heavily fictionalized, novel of the life of the pioneering child psychoanalyst Anna Freud. Pending in June from She Writes Press, Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story already is getting rave reviews from Booklist and the Lambda Literary Foundation, a LGBT literary organization. “I'm also told that Oprah's magazine [O, The Oprah Magazine] will recommend it in either May or June's issue,” says Coffey. The multi-faceted Coffey is a documentary filmmaker, radio...

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